i be so excited when the preview for this movie come out . i simply have to see it . a a professional and goth or macabre or erotica author and anything chilling and romantically tragic and down right elegantly creepy be right up my alley . from the first glimpse of the mansion and the surely wonderful scene i would see and i be ready to go . i be very doubtful about eddie murphy be in this movie ( his comedic talent be well use elsewhere where he can actually be funny ) but i decide to give it a try . now . i wish that i hadn not . be this movie suppose to be a kid movie . be it suppose to be a teenager movie . what be this movie suppose to be . whatever it be suppose to be and romantic and tragic and funny and thrill . it do not make it . the plot and the story and the acting get terribly lose somewhere in it and be never find . this movie have so much wrong with it that i hardly know where to start and so i will simply stick with the acting . first off and the cast with the exception of nathaniel parker and terence stamp and jennifer tilly be a disaster . where they dig this cast up and i have no idea and but they should have re bury them . wallace shawn and dina spybey be absolutely great in their part and but you can not expect two funny and cute people to carry an entire movie . the way this movie be lay out and they be expect to do far too much work and that be simply too much to ask . nathaniel parker obviously beautiful and elegant act talent be so far waste in this movie that i felt sorry for him . take the entire cast away and give him the house and a roaring fire in the study and and a wonderful wardrobe of silken smoke jacket and black pant and dress shoe and let him do his own movie fill with ghost and thing that go bump in the night and i would gladly buy a ticket to see it . terence stamp broad range of act talent be also a total waste in this movie and a few time judge by the expression on his face and he may have think so too . jennifer tilly be the only truly save grace for this film and then yet again and she couldn not have be expect to carry it any more than she do . marsha thomason should have be far bypass for this film . i think her talent could have be well use elsewhere as well . it be painfully obvious that she and nor could anyone else in this movie with possibly the exception of terence stamp and hold anywhere near the court that nathaniel parker do when call to be entrance and tragic . she just be not believable . the only reason i own this movie be to look at the beautiful setting ( the house be magnificent on the grand scale and and the cemetery be wonderful . ) and to sigh forlornly alongside the elegant and ever so dash nathaniel parker who be truly one devastatingly tragic and beautiful ghost . avoid this movie .