- “Hey. You wanna kill me, kill me. But listen, when I come on the other side, I'm gonna just be whipping your ass for all eternity.”
- ―Jim to Master Gracey
Jim Evers is the main protagonist of Disney's 2003 comedy horror film, The Haunted Mansion. He and his wife, Sara, are real estate agents for Evers and Evers Real Estate. He says that he does not believe in ghosts, until he finally meets them for himself.
Role in the film[]
Jim is obsessed with his job, so much so, that he blows off dinner with Sara to sell a house. To make it up to her, he wants to take their family on a vacation with a stop at the Gracey Manor. A heavy rainstorm traps them there, and they are forced to spend the night in peace. Or so they hoped. Jim discovers that when the head of the bust in the library is bent down it opens a secret door in the wall. On the other side of a tunnel he passes the busts whose heads follow him as he walks to a breathing door. Through it is a ringing phone. He answers, with no reply, sees a crow then looks in the mirror and hallucinates that he looks like a zombie. He follows Madame Leota's voice and unwillingly joins her séance. He runs away screaming, due to being chased by flying instruments until he reaches the attic stairs. He realizes Ezra and Emma are ghosts, who tell him that his wife is Master Edward Gracey's dead fiancée. They return to Madame Leota, who tells them the way to escape.
As they go outside, he begins to see the former inhabitants as ghosts. He goes down into the mausoleum with Megan to find the key in "a black crypt with no name" and must pry it from the corpse's hands. He drops it as the zombie follows after him. He knocks its head off only to awaken more zombies. He and Megan try to escape with the key, but the door shuts as they reach it, and spiders cover the outside. After a few tense moments, Michael overcomes his arachnophobia long enough to open the door. Jim returns to Madame Leota who says he must find the chest it opens. In the chest there is a letter that says Elizabeth wanted to marry Master Gracey and Ramsley reveals he poisoned her. He is soon thrown from the window by Ramsley and lands on his car outside. He tries to break in through the windows but they only keep fixing themselves. Madame Leota comes to talk him into continuing to try to rescue his family. On the way to stop the wedding, he sees his kids guarded by knights and fights them.
Jim shows Master Gracey the real letter Elizabeth wrote. As Ramsley is being dragged to damnation, he grabs Jim's legs but soon loses his grip. He holds Sara, the poison taking effect, as she dies but the magical orb lands on her and her soul returns from Heaven. Master Gracey gives Jim the deed to the mansion for heroism, and he and his family watch the spirits of all of the mansion's inhabitants float up to Heaven. In the end, the Evers, along with Madame Leota and four singing busts, drive into the sunset.
Trivia[]
- Jim Evers holds the distinction of uttering the word "ass" more than once in reference to the actual body part.
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