The Haunted Mansion (2003) on Netflix
PG20031h 28mComedyFamilyFantasy
Real estate agent Jim Evers takes his wife Sara and their children to Gracey Manor, hoping to close a sale. A thunderstorm strands the family there with the owner, Edward Gracey.
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Plot summary
Jim Evers is a real estate agent in Louisiana whose long hours at work keep pulling him away from his wife Sara, his business partner, and their children Megan and Michael. On the couple's anniversary, a call comes in from Gracey Manor about a possible sale, and Jim promises Sara a family trip, steering the car to the mansion on the way to the lake. Owner Edward Gracey and his butler Ramsley receive them. A thunderstorm floods the river nearby, stranding the family overnight, and Gracey, who mourns his lost love Elizabeth Henshaw, takes an interest in Sara, who resembles her.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about The Haunted Mansion (2003)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- The film's chief makeup artist, Rick Baker, appears in the graveyard sequence as a background ghost behind a gravestone, using an appearance based on a portrait of the Ghost Host from the source material.
- Years afterwards the film's star, Eddie Murphy, was critical of it: in January 2023 he said simply, "It wasn't very good".
- As on the ride, a quintet of Hidden Mickeys is scattered through the film; the most notable are the padlock at the mansion's gates and the second, when an axe wielded by a possessed suit of armor nearly hits Jim.
- Voice actor Corey Burton was cast as the Ghost Host as a tribute to Paul Frees, the character's original portrayer in the source material.
- With a final domestic gross of $75.8 million, the film made just more than a quarter of the earnings of its theme-ride predecessor, Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl.
- In July 2010 it was announced that a reboot based on Disney's The Haunted Mansion was in development for Walt Disney Pictures, with Guillermo del Toro as writer and producer.
