Editing Addams Family Values (section)

==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".<ref name="Huston">{{cite book| title=Watch Me| url=https://archive.org/details/watchmememoir0000hust| url-access=registration| first=Anjelica| last=Huston| publisher=Scribner's| year=2014| pages=262–263| isbn=9781476760346}}</ref>

Production of ''Addams Family Values'' began in Los Angeles on February 8, 1993.<ref name="AFI">{{Cite web |title=ADDAMS FAMILY VALUES (1993) |url=https://catalog.afi.com/Catalog/moviedetails/59447 |access-date=December 27, 2023 |website=[[American Film Institute]] |archive-date=March 23, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230323174932/https://catalog.afi.com/Catalog/moviedetails/59447 |url-status=live}}</ref> According to Anjelica Huston, it became increasingly clear during filming that Raul Julia's health was deteriorating. He had trouble eating and was losing weight as a result.<ref name="Huston" /> He died on October 24, 1994, less than a year after the film was released. [[Sequoia National Park]], particularly Sequoia Lake, in the [[Sierra Nevada (U.S.)|Sierra Nevada]] of California, was the site of the movie's "Camp Chippewa".<ref>{{cite web| url=http://movie-locations.com/movies/a/Addams-Family-Values.php| title=Addams Family Values Filming Locations| publisher=movie-locations.com| access-date=November 29, 2018}}</ref>