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Director:
Writer (WGA):
David Berenbaum (written by)
Release Date:
26 November 2003 (USA)
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Tagline:
Check your pulse at the door... if you have one. more
Plot:
Workaholic Jim Evers, his wife/business partner and their two kids are summoned to a mansion. When they discover that the place is haunted, Jim discovers an important lesson about the family he's neglected as they attempt to escape. full summary | full synopsis
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1 win
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4 nominations
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(23 articles)
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Review: Imagine That
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Review: Imagine That
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bland, halfhearted throwaway from Murphy
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Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only)| Eddie Murphy | ... | Jim Evers | |
| Terence Stamp | ... | Ramsley | |
| Nathaniel Parker | ... | Master Gracey | |
| Marsha Thomason | ... | Sara Evers | |
| Jennifer Tilly | ... | Madame Leota | |
| Wallace Shawn | ... | Ezra | |
| Dina Waters | ... | Emma | |
| Marc John Jefferies | ... | Michael | |
| Aree Davis | ... | Megan | |
| Jim Doughan | ... | Mr. Coleman | |
| Rachael Harris | ... | Mrs. Coleman (as Rachel Harris) | |
| Steve Hytner | ... | Mr. Silverman | |
| Heather Juergensen | ... | Mrs. Silverman | |
| Jeremy Howard | ... | Hitchhiking Ghost | |
| Deep Roy | ... | Hitchhiking Ghost |
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Also Known As:
Disney's The Haunted Mansion (USA) (complete title)
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MPAA:
Rated PG for frightening images, thematic elements and language.
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Runtime:
99 min | UK:87 min | USA:88 min
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2.35 : 1 more
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Certification:
Iceland:10 |
Iceland:L (video rating) |
Malaysia:U |
Australia:M (original rating) |
Portugal:M/12 |
USA:PG (certificate #40325) |
South Korea:All |
Argentina:Atp |
Australia:PG (re-rating on appeal) |
Brazil:12 |
Canada:PG |
Finland:K-11 |
Germany:12 |
Netherlands:12 |
Norway:11 |
Philippines:G |
Singapore:PG |
Spain:T |
Sweden:11 |
Switzerland:10 (canton of Geneva) |
Switzerland:10 (canton of Vaud) |
Switzerland:12 (canton of Zurich) |
Switzerland:12 (canton of the Grisons) |
UK:PG
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Previously, Eddie Murphy had developed a stand-up routine that lampooned the unrealistic premise of horror movies and specifically haunted houses in Eddie Murphy Delirious (1983) (TV) suggesting that black people would never be featured in such a movie as they would immediately leave upon sighting anything supernatural.
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Continuity: When the Evers family first arrive at the Haunted Mansion, Jim opens the driver side window to yell for the gate to be opened. In the next shot the window is closed.
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References The Sixth Sense (1999)
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Soundtrack:
By the Light of the Silvery Moon
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'The Haunted Mansion,' a film 'inspired' by the Disney theme-park attraction of the same name, feels like a cross between 'The Haunting' and 'The Ghost and Mr. Chicken.' Eddie Murphy is a real estate agent working in tandem with his wife, Marsha Thomason. One day she receives a call from a mysterious stranger asking her to check out some property he wants to put up for sale. Even though the caller specifically asks that she come alone, Murphy decides to go along with her, bringing their two young children as well. When they arrive on the scene, the family finds a mansion replete with all the paraphernalia common to a conventional haunted house - sliding panels, hidden passageways, a graveyard in the backyard, an eccentric owner, a creepy butler (played with delicious relish by Terence Stamp) and, of course, a houseful of unruly and unsettled resident ghosts. Once ensconced inside, the family discovers much like homeowners in a buyer's market - that it's always easier to get into a haunted house than it is to get out of one.
Murphy assumes the Bob Hope role of the comical skeptic who meets each and every danger with a defiant wisecrack and clever quip. Unfortunately, even Murphy, for all his talent, can't rescue material that doesn't have anything much there to begin with. The story is predictable and silly and the dialogue woefully bereft of laughs. There's also one glaring plot hole that should not go unremarked upon. Thomason is supposed to be a (pardon the pun) dead-ringer for a woman who killed herself a hundred and fifty years ago, yet there is no way that, in the context of that time, that woman could ever possibly have been black. Colorblindness is generally a good thing, but in this instance, it strikes at the very core of the story's internal credibility. The film's visual imagery does indeed derive from the Disney attraction statues whose eyes follow people around the room, dancing transparent ghosts, singing disembodied heads but there's a world of difference between a 5-minute amusement-park ride and an 85-minute full-length feature film. Before green-lighting the project, didn't any of the executives over at Disney ask if anyone had come up with a movie worth making? Given the results we see on screen, the answer is 'apparently not.'
There's no point here in launching into our perpetual lament over the downward spiral that Eddie Murphy's career continues to take. After all, if he isn't worried about the squandering of his once notable talent, why should we be? Life is just too short for that.