Plot hole: It seems unlikely that Debbie would have managed to take the photographs of her husbands' murders she shows the Addams family at the end, especially considering the angle of the shot of the surgeon. He's not looking at the cam so she wasn't holding it.
Addams Family Values (1993)
1 plot hole
Directed by: Barry Sonnenfeld
Starring: Anjelica Huston, Christina Ricci, Christopher Lloyd, Joan Cusack, Raul Julia
Continuity mistake: The scarf that Debbie wears while she is driving disappears and reappears throughout the scene.
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Debbie: Isn't he a lady killer?
Gomez Addams: Acquitted.
Question: In the very last scene of the movie, we see Christina Ricci and David Krumholtz sitting in the Addams Family graveyard, and Krumholtz is placing flowers at Debbie Jellinski's tombstone, when a full human arm (presumably the late Debbie's) shoots out of the grave and grabs his wrist, sending him into screaming fits. However, Debbie was completely cremated to ash by electricity a few minutes earlier in the film. Nothing left of her but ash, shoes and credit cards. So, whose arm reached out from Debbie's grave?
Charles Austin MillerAnswer: We are never told whose arm it was that came out of the grave.
Answer: It could be Thing (The Addam's disembodied hand).
It couldn't be Thing. It's a whole arm that came out of the ground and Thing only goes to the wrist.
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Answer: It was a prank Wednesday was pulling on Joel. She mentions she would scare her husband to death and then smiles when Joel starts screaming.
BaconIsMyBFFYes, she said she'd scare her husband to death. But it is a very animate human arm that reaches out of the grave, causing me to wonder WHO was in the grave to pull off the prank?
Charles Austin MillerI mean, if it was just a hand coming out of the grave, I would be satisfied that it was "Thing" taking part in the prank. But it was a whole human forearm (which Thing does not have).
Charles Austin MillerThere's no evidence in the film to answer the question. They never show you who the arm belongs to, and with good reason. It would ruin the joke. This is just one of those questions that can't be definitively answered.
BaconIsMyBFFThis is also a reference to the end scene of Carrie.
Oliver Baum