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Movies that feel like Addams Family Values (1993)

If you loved Addams Family Values, the closest films we have are Hocus Pocus (1993), Mary Poppins Returns (2018) and Babe (1995). All three share Addams Family Values' witty and playful feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 9 of the 12 picks below are included with a subscription right now on Netflix, Amazon Prime Video and Hulu and others, checked against today's data.

Siblings Wednesday and Pugsley Addams will stop at nothing to get rid of Pubert, the new baby boy adored by parents Gomez and Morticia. Things go from bad to worse when the new "black widow" nanny, Debbie Jellinsky, launches her plan to add Fester to her collection of dead husbands.

πŸ… 76% Rotten Tomatoesβ˜… 6.9 IMDb β†—TMDB β†—dir. Barry Sonnenfeldwittyplayfulwarmcozydreamlike
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Looking for the series itself? Also in this series: The Addams Family (1991)

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Hocus Pocus
1993 Β· dir. Kenny Ortega
πŸ… 42%β˜… 6.9fantasy Β· comedy Β· family

One thread runs through both: brothers and sisters

The difference: Reviewed a good deal more coolly

After 300 years of slumber, three sister witches are accidentally resurrected in Salem on Halloween night, and it is up to three kids and their newfound feline friend to put an end to the witches' reign of terror once and for all.

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Mary Poppins Returns
2018 Β· dir. Rob Marshall
πŸ… 80%β˜… 6.7fantasy Β· family Β· comedy

Both keep coming back to the same thing: nanny

The difference: Made in the 2010s, in a different era of the craft

Mary Poppins returns to the Banks family and helps them evade grave dangers by taking them on magical, musical adventures.

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Babe
1995 Β· dir. Chris Noonan
πŸ… 98%β˜… 6.9fantasy Β· drama Β· comedy

Witty and playful in the same breath

The difference: Leans harder into drama than Addams Family Values does

Babe is a little pig who doesn't quite know his place in the world. With a bunch of odd friends, like Ferdinand the duck who thinks he is a rooster and Fly the dog he calls mum, Babe realises that he has the makings to become the greatest sheep pig of all time, and Farmer Hoggett knows it. With the help of the sheep dogs, Babe learns that a pig can be anything that he wants to be.

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Mary Poppins
1964 Β· dir. Robert Stevenson
πŸ… 95%β˜… 7.8comedy Β· family Β· fantasy

The same preoccupation in both: brothers and sisters

In turn of the century London, a magical nanny employs music and adventure to help two neglected children become closer to their father.

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Casper
1995 Β· dir. Brad Silberling
πŸ… 59%β˜… 6.2fantasy Β· comedy Β· family

Both land warmth and comfort at once

Casper is a kind young ghost who peacefully haunts a mansion in Maine. When specialist James Harvey arrives to communicate with Casper and his fellow spirits, he brings along his teenage daughter, Kat. Casper quickly falls in love with Kat, but their budding relationship is complicated not only by his transparent state, but also by his troublemaking apparition uncles and their mischievous antics.

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Doctor Dolittle
1998 Β· dir. Betty Thomas
πŸ… 44%β˜… 5.4comedy Β· family Β· fantasy

Comedy with a pulse of dream logic, in both cases

A successful physician and devoted family man, John Dolittle seems to have the world by the tail, until a long suppressed talent he possessed as a child, the ability to communicate with animals is suddenly reawakened with a vengeance! Now every creature within squawking distance wants the good doctor's advice, unleashing an outrageous chain of events that turns his world upside down!

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Nanny McPhee
2005 Β· dir. Kirk Jones
πŸ… 74%β˜… 6.6fantasy Β· comedy Β· family

Common ground: nanny

Widower Cedric Brown hires Nanny McPhee to care for his seven rambunctious children, who have chased away all previous nannies. Taunted by Simon and his siblings, Nanny McPhee uses mystical powers to instill discipline. And when the children's great-aunt and benefactor, Lady Adelaide Stitch, threatens to separate the kids, the family pulls together under the guidance of Nanny McPhee.

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Stuart Little
1999 Β· dir. Rob Minkoff
πŸ… 66%β˜… 6family Β· fantasy Β· comedy

Family built on wit, twice over

The difference: Sits closer to adventure than Addams Family Values does

When the Littles adopt Stuart, the mouse, George is initially unwelcoming to his new brother, and the family cat, Snowbell, is even less enthusiastic. Stuart resolves to face these difficulties with as much pluck and courage as he can muster.

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Freaky Friday
2003 Β· dir. Mark Waters
πŸ… 88%β˜… 6.4comedy Β· family Β· fantasy

Playful fantasy in both cases

Mother and daughter bicker over everything -- what Anna wears, whom she likes and what she wants to do when she's older. In turn, Anna detests Tess's fiancΓ©. When a magical fortune cookie switches their personalities, they each get a peek at how the other person feels, thinks and lives.

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Evan Almighty
2007 Β· dir. Tom Shadyac
πŸ… 24%β˜… 5.4fantasy Β· comedy Β· family

Both lean on warmth more than on comedy

God contacts Junior Congressman Evan Baxter and tells him to build an ark in preparation for a great flood.

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The Secret Garden
1993 Β· dir. Agnieszka Holland
πŸ… 89%β˜… 7.3drama Β· family Β· fantasy

Both are built on the same subject: uncle

The difference: None of the wit Addams Family Values is built on

A young British girl born and reared in India loses her neglectful parents in an earthquake. She is returned to England to live at her uncle's castle. Her uncle is very distant due to the loss of his wife ten years before. Neglected once again, she begins exploring the estate and discovers a garden that has been locked and forgotten. Aided by one of the servants' boys, she begins restoring the garden, and eventually discovers some other secrets of the manor.

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Asterix and Obelix Take On Caesar
1999 Β· dir. Claude Zidi
β˜… 6family Β· adventure Β· comedy

Cozy family, and it commits to that

Set in 50 B.C., Asterix and Obelix are living in a small but well-protected village in Gaul, where a magic potion concocted by Druids turns the townsfolk into mighty soldiers. When Roman troops carve a path through Gaul to reach the English Channel, Caesar and his aide de camp Detritus discover the secret elixir and capture the Druid leader who knows its formula, and Asterix and Obelix are sent off to rescue them.

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