Looking back, it’s a small miracle that “The Addams Family” became the box office smash that it did when the pitch-black comedy debuted in theaters over Thanksgiving in 1991.
According to a Variety interview for the film’s 30th anniversary, director Barry Sonnenfeld painted a pretty grim picture for the film that got caught up in a studio change when Orion Pictures was suddenly sold to Paramount halfway through filming.
“The whole second half of the shoot we were working for a studio that thought we were uncuttable and unreleasable, so things got more difficult,” Sonnenfeld said.
“They stopped letting us have bottled water on the set.” That seems like a bizarre way for executives to cut costs.
Was the water budget for “The Addams Family” really that out of control?Of course, “The Addams Family” ended up grossing close to 200 million globally, spawning the even funnier sequel “Addams Family Values.” Two highly successful animated versions,
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