Friday, May 02, 2008

The Addams Family: Art and the Addams Family (1964) (TV)

Synopsis [spoilers]: Grandmama has taken to painting and Gomez invites his friend Bosley Swain the art critic to look at her paintings. He says she needs a teacher, so they decide to hire Picasso to teach her. Lurch calls him in France but can't find him there, so he tries Spain; he reaches another man named Picasso who was about to commit suicide. He agrees to come to America to teach Grandmama. He is only interested in the free meals he will get; Bosley Swain is invited again and says this is not the real Picasso, but a crook who uses his famous relative's name to sell his worthless paintings. The Addams think he is jealous and encourage Picasso to paint; they even lock him up in his studio. Wednesday sneaks in there through one of Pugsley's secret tunnels. Picasso decides to escape through the tunnel; Wednesday takes the opportunity to paint on Picasso's canvases. The Addams catch Picasso escaping and take him back in; they see Wednesday's paintings and think they are Picasso's. They summon Bosley Swain to look at them, and he says they're masterpieces; he buys them; Picasso takes the money and goes back to Spain. Morticia and the Thing decide to paint too.

Saw it dubbed in Portuguese.

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