High Spirits
For Jack, It Was Love At First Sighting!
Daryl Hannah, Peter O'Toole and Steve Guttenberg star in this gleefully ghoulish comedy sparkling with romance and rollicking with supernatural special effects. Written and directed by Neil Jordan (Interview With A Vampire) and co-starring Beverly D'Angelo, Jennifer Tilly, Peter Gallagher and Liam Neeson, High Spirits is the most fun you'll have in this world... or the next!
Impoverished Peter Plunkett (O'Toole) hatches the perfect plan to save his debt-ridden Irish castle: lure American tourists by advertising his place as haunted. But when Peter and his staff don sheets and chains to go a-haunting, they scare up more than paying guests... they arouse the real ghosts of Castle Plunkett! And when American tourist Jack (Guttenberg) spies a gorgeous ghost named Mary (Hannah), it's love at first sighting. Now all Jack has to worry about is Mary's murderous spook of a husband... and their 200-year ages difference!
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Give it a chance - QuartInSession
I almost turned this one off after 15 minutes - didn't seem to be much hope - but I'm glad I stuck with it, because it turned into an enjoyable little romp. Would have been better with someone other than Steve Gutenberg (what movie wouldn't), but it was an entertaining and fun nonetheless. A good diversion.Funny, Funny Movie - minny5ca
A very funny movie, a little corny maybe at times. But a good overall romp of fun!
Peter O'Toole in this one gives an excellent performance as the witless & miserably useless to use his character's own words Peter Plunkett.
In a desperate attempt to save Plunkett Castle located on Irish soil Peter Plunkett advertises the castle as the most "Haunted Place on Emerald Isle" in an attempt to draw American Tourists. The Castle is full of deteriorated rooms full of cobwebs and tattered drapes and bed linens.
When the "creation" of the ghosts go awry the situation backfires when the real "ghost" played a variety of actors including Darryl Hannah and Liam Neeson, decide to give the Americans a real taste of what they came for.
Things get complicated when one of the Americans Jack Crawford played by Steve Guttenberg falls in love with Mary Plunkett, one of the ghosts in the castle, excellently played by Darryl Hannah. Things get tangled more when Mary's husband Martin Brogan who has in fact murdered Mary on their wedding night decides he is in love with Sharon, Jack's wife whose maiden name just happens to be Brogan ...
Set around Halloween the cast end up with a ghostly good time - good performances by Guttenberg and D'Angelo but it is Peter O'Toole and Liam Neeson who really shine in this one.
Good movie for a laugh.3 Stars - bleuorchid21
High Spirits is the story of the Plunkett castle in Ireland and how the owners need money in order to keep it going, so they get the idea to fool guests into believing the castle is inhabited by real ghosts. What they don't know is, what if it really is haunted?
The movie has a good size cast of actors you would recognize and has its comedic moments and thrills.
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Give it a chance - QuartInSession
I almost turned this one off after 15 minutes - didn't seem to be much hope - but I'm glad I stuck with it, because it turned into an enjoyable little romp. Would have been better with someone other than Steve Gutenberg (what movie wouldn't), but it was an ...Funny, Funny Movie - minny5ca
A very funny movie, a little corny maybe at times. But a good overall romp of fun!
Peter O'Toole in this one gives an excellent performance as the witless & miserably useless to use his character's own words Peter Plunkett.
In a desperate attempt ...3 Stars - bleuorchid21
High Spirits is the story of the Plunkett castle in Ireland and how the owners need money in order to keep it going, so they get the idea to fool guests into believing the castle is inhabited by real ghosts. What they don't know is, what if it really is haunted?
The ...