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List Price: $14.98 | | Label: MGM (Video & DVD)
Salesrank: 9679
Released: June 4, 2002 |
| Our Price: $8.28 |
| Used Price: $5.31 |
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MPAA Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
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 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 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 age difference!
Description of High Spirits:
Peter O'Toole (Lawrence of Arabia, My Favorite Year) gives an exuberant performance in High Spirits. Peter Plunkett (O'Toole) hopes to save his mortgaged castle by turning it into a tourist attraction--the most haunted castle in Ireland. When American tourists arrive--among them Jack (Steve Guttenberg) and Sharon (Beverly D'Angelo), a couple whose marriage is rapidly disintegrating--Plunkett's tomfoolery arouses the real ghosts, who decide to give these interlopers everything they're asking for. But when Jack accidentally helps a beautiful ghost named Mary (Daryl Hannah), she decides he's the man to help her break the curse she's been suffering for 200 years. High Spirits is an odd foray into comedy by director Neil Jordan (The Crying Game, Interview with the Vampire). The special effects are clumsy, but the strong supporting cast includes Jennifer Tilly, Peter Gallagher, and Liam Neeson as Mary's murderous 200-year-old husband. --Bret Fetzer
High Spirits Reviews:
Better than expected 
2009-09-25 - Of course, I'm a sucker for Peter O'toole, but I was really impressed with the quality of the product...not a scratch in sight.
Great for 80's movies fans
2009-09-24 - If you like 80's movies, this one fits right in. It's refreshing and different. You can watch it over and over and still be laughing.
Hilarious Ghostly Tale
2009-07-11 - This is a little known movie with Peter O'Toole,Daryl Hannah and Liam Neeson.My family and I have enjoyed it for years.We watch it every Halloween as it takes place in Ireland on "All Hallows Eve".Treat yourself to quite a few laughs-watch this movie!
Great Movie!!
2009-06-12 - What a hoot! It will have you rolling in the floor. Buy it!! Laughter is the best medicine.
Hilarious 80's flick 
2009-03-19 - It's an all-star cast on the comedy side. They have one kookie thing after another when the people that live in Castle Plunkett try to save thier home from being taken over by a greedy buyer. Yes, it's 80's cheesy but its still worth laughing at with your friends or dates.
