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...case, the ghosts in question inhabit the elaborate mansion of a wealthy eccentric (F. Murray Abraham). After his death the mansion is bequeathed to his nearest relative, a young widower (Tony Shalhoub) with two incredibly irritating children (Alec Roberts and American Pie’s Shannon Elizabeth). Accompanied by their offensively stereotypical black babysitter (Rah Digga) and an overactive ghost hunter (Matthew Lillard), the family becomes trapped in the mansion and struggles to uncover its secret...
...that's debatable: Frank Haddad (played byTony Shalhoub), Hubbard's FBI Lebanese-AmericanMuslim sidekick, is a very positive, humorous andhuman portrayal of the first major non-terroristMuslim character in a Hollywood movie. The mostpowerful moment in the film shows Haddad searchingthe internment center frantically for his 13year-old son, a natural-born American citizen,whom the Army seized from his own home duringtheir round-up. I put myself in his son's placeand imagined my father as Frank--both came to thiscountry 20 years ago, both became naturalizedcitizens and both made their careers in theservice of others. My eyes began...
...demands of the genre. They give us an FBI agent in charge of the case--played by that paragon of sexy stalwartness, Denzel Washington--whose heroism lies largely in his ability to reconsider hasty conclusions. They provide him with an assistant of Arab descent (a quietly smoldering Tony Shalhoub), caught in a conflict between duty and disgust when the soldiery snatches his son because he happens to match a terrorist profile. They also add to the team a sassy CIA operative (Annette Bening) who knows more about these terrorists than she can tell because she's in love with...
...film, and his part seems little more than an expanded cameo. Annette Bening is a covert CIA officer, Elise Kraft, whose motives remain multi-faceted and unclear, and while sexual tension surrounds her interaction with Hubbard, she has eyes only for a possible ally of the terrorists. Tony Shalhoub is an Arab-American FBI agent caught in the middle of the debacle, and as someone who has deliberately avoided playing to the Arab mold throughout his career, his appearance lends credence to the non-racist nature of the film...
...infrequent theater patrons, the only name that is familiar is Tony Shalhoub, who is a regular as Antonio the cabdriver on the NBC sitcom "Wings" and who played the master chef in last year's surprise hit film Big Night. One might expect then that Shalhoub's role would be the central one, but surprisingly, his presence is only used as a tool to tie the three vignettes together. His role as Bobby Gould is that of an observer, a sponge of sorts that just soaks in what is around him. He engages in conversation with four other people...