The Haunted Mansion (
2003) | IMDb:
5.1
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 arrive 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.
Starring:
Eddie Murphy
,
Marsha Thomason
,
Terence Stamp
,
Nathaniel Parker
,
Jennifer Tilly
,
Dina Spybey-Waters
Bringing Down the House (
2003) | IMDb:
5.6
Uptight lawyer Peter Sanderson wants to dive back into dating after his divorce and has a hard time meeting the right women. He tries online dating and lucks out when he starts chatting with a fellow lawyer. The two agree to meet in the flesh, but the woman he meets — an escaped African-American convict named Charlene — is not what he expected. Peter is freaked out, but Charlene tries to convinces him to take her case and prove her innocence. Along the way, she wreaks havoc on his middle-class life as he gets a lesson in learning to lighten up.
Starring:
Steve Martin
,
Queen Latifah
,
Eugene Levy
,
Joan Plowright
,
Jean Smart
,
Kimberly J. Brown