The Haunted Mansion/Best scene/Eddie Murphy/Jennifer Tilly/Wallace Shawn/Aree Davis/Marc

Years ago, wealthy landowner Edward Gracey falls in love with Elizabeth Henshaw, a servant in his grand manor. Misled into believing that she spurned him, and that her death by poison was suicide, he hangs himself. In the present, Jim (Eddie Murphy) and Sara Evers (Marsha Thomason) are successful realtors with two children, Megan (Aree Davis) and arachnophobic Michael (Marc John Jefferies). A workaholic with little time for his family, Jim misses his wedding anniversary and tries to make amends by suggesting a vacation to a nearby lake. Sara is contacted by the occupants of Gracey Manor in the Louisiana bayou; Jim, eager to make a deal, takes Sara and the children to the mansion, meeting its owner Edward Gracey (Nathaniel Parker), his butler Ramsley (Terence Stamp), maid Emma (Dina Spybey), and footman Ezra (Wallace Shawn). When a storm floods the nearby river, Gracey allows the Evers family to stay the night. Ramsley takes Jim to discuss the deal with Gracey, but Jim becomes trapped in a secret