Heartwarming / The Haunted Mansion (2003)

• In the film, Emma the maid brings the children cookies, and seems delighted to have someone to dote on. Especially sweet considering that, being a ghost, she can't enjoy them herself, and since Ramsley seems disapproving of the cookies she risked getting in trouble with the Big Bad just so she could give a treat to their surprise guests.
• The deleted scene where Emma and Ezra talk about how Elizabeth was their friend and they really want to see her again and end their torment, but not at the expense of an innocent family.
• The ending, where thanks to the Evers family, all the spirits save Ramsley are freed.
  "Angels in Heaven, together at last. The tale is well ended for those who have passed. Love endures all, no reason, no rhyme. It lasts forever and forever all the time."
  • Gracey giving the family the deed to the mansion before ascending to Heaven with Elizabeth.
    "Sell it, keep it, do whatever makes you and your family happy. And thank you all."
  • Ezra and Emma waving goodbye, hugging all of the Evers one by one.
  • The fact that the Evers family left with Madame Leota and the Singing Heads in tow.
• Jim is a genuinely good parent to his kids, particularly Michael who he tries to encourage to get over his phobia of spiders. He's never angry or impatient with either of them; even when he and Megan are trapped in the mausoleum and need Michael to open the door, he stays relatively calm, avoids frightening him and tries to talk him through his fear. Compare this to Megan, who is understandably scared and yelling at Michael to open the door now.
• Fridge-Heartwarming: When Jim learns about Gracey's plans to marry off Sara, Ezra rhetorically asks if this upsets him. Indeed, it does. But it's not the fact that the house isn't for sale; that's just an after-thought. The foremost issue is that Gracey is dead and trying to get with Sara, despite that she's already married to Jim. If anything, this foreshadows that despite being a workaholic, Jim truly does cherish his wife and their marriage.
• Elizabeth being the ghost ball, especially when you consider that without her intervention, Ramsley's plan would have succeeded. That she indirectly saved Jim's kids from being held hostage tells you enough about what kind of a person it was that Gracey fell in love with.

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