lays flowers on Debbie's grave, a hand (implied to be Thing) emerges from the earth and grabs him, prompting Wednesday to smile as he screams. Cast Anjelica Huston as Morticia Addams Raul Julia as Gomez Addams Christopher Lloyd as Fester Addams Christina Ricci as Wednesday Addams Christopher Hart as Thing Carel Struycken as Lurch Jimmy Workman as Pugsley Addams Carol Kane as Grandmama Addams (replacing Judith Malina) John Franklin as Cousin Itt Joan Cusack as Debbie Jellinsky Dana Ivey as Margaret Alford-Addams (wife of Cousin Itt Addams) David Krumholtz as Joel Glicker Kaitlyn and Kristen Hooper as Pubert Addams Peter MacNicol as Gary Granger Christine Baranski as Becky Martin-Granger Mercedes McNab as Amanda Buckman, a camper at Camp Chippewa (McNab played the Girl Scout in the first film) Cameo roles Director Barry Sonnenfeld and Julie Halston as the parents of Joel Glicker. Nathan Lane as the police desk sergeant. Lane would eventually go on to play Gomez in the Addams Family Broadway musical. David Hyde Pierce as the delivery room doctor Peter Graves as America's Most Disgusting Unsolved Crimes anchorman Sam McMurray and Harriet Sansom Harris as Amanda's parents Ian Abercrombie as a driver Chris Ellis as a furniture delivery driver Tony Shalhoub as Jorge Cynthia Nixon as a nanny interviewee Production The "family values" in the film's title is a tongue-in-cheek reference by writer Paul Rudnick to a 1992 speech ("Reflections on Urban America") made by then-Vice Presidential candidate Dan Quayle. In the speech, Quayle controversially blamed the 1992 Los Angeles riots on a breakdown of "family values". According to Anjelica Huston, during the filming of Addams Family Values, it became increasingly clear that Raul Julia's health was deteriorating. He had trouble eating and was losing weight as a result. He died less than a year after the film was released. Sequoia National Park, particularly Sequoia Lake, in the Sierra Nevada of California, was the site of the movie's "Camp Chippewa". Music Addams Family Values: The Original Orchestral Score composed by Marc Shaiman Addams Family Values: Music from the Motion Picture Various artist soundtrack album Michael Jackson's involvement American singer Michael Jackson was supposed to feature a song in the film called "Addams Groove/Family Thing". The song is mostly rumored to have been removed due to the child sexual abuse allegations against Jackson; in reality, it was because of contractual differences with Paramount Pictures. The song has since been