#Nathaniel Parker

[bohemian-nights]

If you truly love someone they never leave you.

The Haunted Mansion

2003 | dir. Rob Minkoff

[kennethbrangh]

Nathaniel Parker as Gabriel Oak in Far from the Madding Crowd (1998)

[asgoodeasgold]

"That fire behind the eyes"* was already there in Matthew in his very early work. Such magnetic screen presence and so much feeling expressed without a word uttered. Spine-tingling!

Matthew portrays Peter, the wayward, drug-addicted brother of Inspector Lynley and needless to say he was brilliant!

* See my post from Tuesday about the Cinema: A to B podcast about Matthew's performance in Freud's Last Session

📷 A Suitable Vengeance (The Inspector Lynley Mysteries s2:03) (2003) my edits

[onlyperioddramas]

Wide Sargasso Sea (1993), director John Duigan

[hauntedmansion2003apologist]

look at that shirt two buttons unbuttoned, that's hoe era material right there

[bug-and-such]

The Evers family: *trying to save Sara*

Mr. Gracey: 😍❤️‍🔥💀🥀🧎🏻😘🫦🫶🏻👻👩🏾‍❤️‍💋‍👨🏻👰🏾‍♀️❤️‍🔥

[didanagy]

Bleak House (2005)

dir. justin chadwick and susanna white

[autumncottageattic]

A Village Affair is a 1995 British television film based on the 1989 eponymous novel by Joanna Trollope.

Part III

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Title: The Haunted Mansion

Rating: PG

Director: Rob Minkoff

Cast: Eddie Murphy, Marsha Thomason, Terence Stamp, Nathaniel Parker, Jennifer Tilly, Dina Spybey-Waters, Wallace Shawn, Marc John Jefferies, Aree Davis, Jim Doughan, Rachael Harris, Steve Hytner, Heather Juergensen, Jeremy Howard, Deep Roy

Release year: 2003

Genres: fantasy, comedy, mystery, horror, thriller, family

Blurb: Workaholic Jim Evers and his wife/business partner Sara get a call one night from a mansion owner, Edward Gracey, who wants to sell his house. Once the Evers family arrives at the mansion, a torrential thunderstorm of mysterious origin strands them with the brooding, eccentric Gracey, his mysterious butler, and a variety of residents - both seen and unseen.

[motion-of-love]

Elizabeth and Master Gracey are reunited

and Sara is returned to Jim

The Haunted Mansion [2003]

[cameronmccoy9161994]

Disney's The Haunted Mansion | Gracey Manor (2003 Film Version)

The name of the mansion in the 2003 film, which is heavily based on Disneyland California, Walt Disney World and Tokyo Disneyland versions of the Disney Theme Park Attraction.

[kennethbrangh]

Kenneth Branagh as Iago and Nathaniel Parker as Cassio in Othello (1995)

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BTS photos from the set of Me and Mrs Jones | 📸: jbaileydaily

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W A T C H I N G

I bought this in 2019 because I love this Shakespearean story in all its alternate forms HAMLET.

I just never got to watch it because my life was difficult. So it sat on the self in a pile of unmatched movies.

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The Haunted Mansion (2003) - Edward/Elizabeth/Sara

I had a thought or an alternative to The Haunted Mansion 2003 movie.

What if instead of making Sara Elizabeth's doppelganger, they made her a descendant of Edward and Elizabeth.

Edward and Elizabeth could have gotten married in secret. The two servants, Ezra and Emma, are happy for them but Ramsley is still opposed to their union. Elizabeth becomes pregnant. Ramsley tells her that the child and their union would never be accepted by society, thinly veiling a threat against her and her child. Elizabeth leaves in secret with the help of Emma and Ezra but she leaves a letter for Edward. Edward discovers she's gone but is unaware of her pregnancy. He takes his own life or dies from heartbreak, thus beginning the curse that plagues Gracey Manor. It would only be broken when Elizabeth returns.

Elizabeth gives birth to her child who has children and grandchildren which leads to Sara being born. Sara grows up and marries Jim and they have Megan and Michael. Sara is called back to Gracey Manor when their real estate flyer gets noticed by the ghosts. They go to the mansion and go through their ordeal. Everyone finds out that she is not Elizabeth but Elizabeth's and Edward's descendant (which would explain the resemblance). Elizabeth, in her spirit ball form, comes back to Gracey Manor to aid her family and reunite with Edward at last. Edward gives the Evers the deed to the house as they are his heirs. Edward, Elizabeth and the rest of the souls go in peace to Heaven.

I saw this movie 20 years ago and it's still one of my favorites. I just thought of this scenario this morning as pretty much all the answers to the problem were in the house for over a century (Elizabeth as a ghost ball, the hidden letter, hell, her would've-been wedding dress, etc.). Also, one of my other favorites is The Haunting 1999 movie (it's a bad-good film) and something similar happens in that adaption.

The scenario could also work because of the library scene between Edward and Sara when she asks him why he would sell it as the house was in his family for generations (not knowing he was a ghost).

And while I loved Marsha Thomason in this, she was too young to be playing wife and mother to Eddie Murphy and his children. She was 25 to 26 when they filmed the movie and 27 when it was released. He was in his early fourties. I was 13 when I saw this movie. 20 years later, I'm like

The wonderful world of acting.

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yeah, I'm not good at edits but I felt the need to make this

song: I Bet On Losing Dogs covered by Mack Lorén (on tiktok)