Synopsis
When a hotelier attempts to fill the chronic vacancies at his castle by launching an advertising campaign that falsely portrays the property as haunted, two actual ghosts show up and end up falling for two guests.
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Cast
- Peter O'ToolePeter Plunkett
- Daryl HannahMary Plunkett
- Steve GuttenbergJack Crawford
- Beverly D'AngeloSharon Brogan Crawford
- Jennifer TillyMiranda
- Liam NeesonMartin Brogan
- Peter GallagherBrother Tony
- Martin FerreroMalcolm
- Donal McCannEamon
- Liz SmithMrs. Plunkett
Recommendations
- 60
Empire
It's safe, it's mainstream and it's silly, but Guttenberg and Hannah strike up enough chemistry to give this big budget apparition at least a little depth. - 60
The New York Times
Luckily, High Spirits has a good cast and enough joie de vivre to rise above some of its underlying clumsiness. - 60
Variety
High Spirits is a piece of supernatural Irish whimsy with a few appealing dark underpinnings, but it still rises and falls constantly on the basis of its moment-to-moment inspirations. - 50
Los Angeles Times
The American big-movie sex comedy conventions overwhelm Jordan’s liberating poetry, his wild lyricism. - 50
Washington Post
Writer-director Neil Jordan shows no knack for comedy, nor is he as kinky as he was on Mona Lisa, and kinky is what is called for. - 50
TV Guide Magazine
Despite considerable production support and a relatively high budget (it was shot on location in Ireland and on a massive interior set at England's famed Shepperton studios), this is easily the weakest effort in director-screenwriter Jordan's solid career. - 50
Chicago Tribune
The film shows very little of the nar-rative assurance that has character-ized Jordan's previous work. [21 Nov 1988, p.2C] - 50
Miami Herald
Jordan's jokes are sometimes stereotypical barbs tossed at Americans, but the Irish director definitely can inject hackneyed Hollywood devices with high-spirited fun. Be warned, though, you'll have to stomach some dismal scenes between Hannah and Guttenberg -- the biggest stiffs in this movie. [18 Nov 1988, p.D8]
