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The Addams Family (1991) More at IMDbPro »

• Revealing mistakes: Obvious use of juggling double for Raul Julia in long shots during Mamushka sequence.
  
  
• Continuity: When Thing uses Morse code to tell Gomez about Morticia's kidnapping, he holds the spoon by the bowl end while the handle taps the table, but in the next shot, he's holding the handle while the bowl end is tapping the table.
  
  
• Continuity: When Morticia is clearing the cupboard for the charity sale her hands are raised in the close-ups and lowered in the long-shots.
  
  

• Continuity: When Wednesday and Pugsley are selling lemonade there is only one sign behind them, but when Morticia goes to talk to Fester, she walks by the same spot and the sign is moved and another is there with the original next to it.
  
  
• Continuity: Wednesday pulls down one of the four levers on the electric chair, but in the next shot, the other two levers are pulled as well.
  
  
• Continuity: Grandmamma is seeing performing during the Mamushka, and also walking by Tully and the doctor while the Mamushka is being performed.
  
  
• Continuity: During Tully and Margaret Alford's first visit to the Addams mansion, Thing appears to be lending a hand to the men in the office and the women in the attic simultaneously.
  
  
• Continuity: Near the end, when Tully and Dr. Pinder-Schloss are catapulted through the air, they switch positions before landing in their respective coffins.
  
  
• Continuity: When Margaret is examining the Chinese finger trap with Morticia, she inserts both her fingers in the device, which would trap them. In the next shot, her fingers have escaped the trap. Then, she inserts them a second time and this time they become stuck.
  
  
• Continuity: When Fester first comes out of the escape chute, he comes out of Pugsley's, which is the left one. Later, when Wednesday escapes before the Mamushka, the escape chute covers are switched. When Tully, the doctor and Fester are trying to get into the vault and come out of the chute, the covers are switched back.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: Lurch burns the wooden Indian outside the motel by breathing fire on to it. In later scenes, the Indian is restored.
  
  
• Continuity: At the bottom of the slide, on the way to the vault, Festers right hand is incorrectly switching between being at his side or at his throat between shots.
  
  
• Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): Fester tells Wednesday to "Aim for a major artery: the jugular!" However, the jugular is a vein; the major artery in the neck is the carotid.
  
  
• Crew or equipment visible: When Fester climbs in his bedroom window after chasing Wednesday into the cemetery, you can see the harness on the back of his collar.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: When Gomez tells Tully he cannot discuss new business until the next quarter, he flips a desk calendar to that day's date, which is Monday, September 9, 1991. The opposite page of the calendar says Thursday, August 8, 1991.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: When Thing is pulling the wagon with his belongings, the string pulling the wagon is visible.
  
  
• Continuity: During the school play, Wednesday cheek is smeared with blood at the moment of her death scene. When she turns to face the audience (and sprays the front row in the process) the blood on her cheek is no longer there.
  
  
• Continuity: When 'Gordon' and Tully meet for the first time in Tully's office, Gordon grabs Tully by the shirt just below the neck. In the next shot his hand is around Tully's throat.
  
  
• Continuity: When Morticia goes back to the Addams mansion to speak to Tully and is captured, and Thing follows her and goes back to the motel to tell Gomez, it's obviously night. But when Gomez is at the table and Thing is trying to communicate, the room is filled with daylight. When they leave to save Morticia, it's night again.
  
  

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