| | | A hauntingly funny comedy!
Features: DVD, Widescreen, Aspect Ratio 1.85:1, Spanish, Subtitled, Theatrical Version
Starring Peter O'Toole, Daryl Hannah and Steve Guttenberg, this delightfully ghoulish comedy sparkles with romance and rollicks with supernatural special effects. Written and directed by Neil Jordan (Interview With The 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 the palace 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 age difference!
"It's a...psychic sex farce...that touches on everything from petting to the poltergasm." Rita Kempley, Washington Post
Editor's Note
Things aren't going well for the soused owner of a debt-ridden Irish castle, so he opens it as a haunted bed-and-breakfast and dictates that the staff dress in sheets. They scare up more than the tourists when the former, now-deceased residents join in the games.
Plot Summary
High-spirited hijinks at a haunted house.| A titled, but financially strapped, gentleman opens up his Irish castle to American tourists in order to get some quick cash. Figuring that a haunted building will prove particularly appealing to the Yanks, he orders his employees to dress up and act like ghosts.| But what the castle's owner doesn't realize is that there are a couple of real phantasms on premises -- and they've taken a liking to a bickering couple who have come for a visit.
| Features | Original Theatrical Trailer | | Interactive Menus | | Scene Access | | Widescreen Version Enhanced For 16x9 TVs And Standard Version | | Audio: English Dolby Digital Stereo | | Subtitles: English, French, Spanish |
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Release Information
| | Studio: MGM |
| Release Date: 6/4/2002 |
| Running Time: 98 minutes |
| Original Release Date: 1988 | | Catalog ID: 1003511 | | UPC: 00027616876614 | | Number of Discs: 1 |
Audio & Video
| | Original Language: English | | Available Audio Tracks: English | | Available Subtitles: English, French, Spanish | | Video: Color |
Aspect Ratio | | 1.85:1/4:3 |
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| | Professional Reviews | Los Angeles Times
"...Neil Jordan is one of the world's most brilliant young film makers....HIGH SPIRITS has delightful moments..." 11/18/1988 p.C12 |
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