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High Spirits

High Spirits

1988
Romance, Comedy
1h 39m
When Peter Plunkett's Irish castle turned hotel is about to be repossesed, he decides to spice up the attraction a bit for the 'Yanks' by having his staff pretend to haunt the castle... (imdb)
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High Spirits

1988
Romance, Comedy
1h 39m
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Rated 19 Sep 2013
20
22nd
I once had a dream that I was Steve Guttenberg, and while visiting a styrofoam castle in Limerick with my yuppie wife, I fell in love with the ghost of Daryl Hannah after saving her from a ghostly stabbing by the ghost of Liam Neeson. Thank God it was only a dream...OR WAS IT!?
Rated 17 Jan 2020
58
34th
I could watch this again not just for nonstop, imaginative zanyness but for the awesome cast! Steve Guttenberg is sweet and overly whipped by his wife, the type of screeching uber-bitch we don't see in movies anymore, played by Beverly D'angelo. Tilly, Gallagher...even Mr. Lawyer from Jurassic Park (Martin Ferrero) gets a cool role as a silly, skeptical yet then overzealous paranormal investigator. It's half baked looniness with an unbelievable cast. I had a ton of fun with this
Rated 29 Mar 2023
64
45th
It's fittingly macabre and I rarely ask for more. Steve Guttenberg is always dealing with some kind of horror, here a ghost, before a robot in Short Circuit and even worse a baby. Poor guy.
Rated 09 Nov 2014
30
3rd
All of Jordan's shortcomings stuffed into one irritating, unfunny, painfully stupid package; the broad, juvenile comedy; the yelling and screaming in place of drama; the hysterically fluctuating tone. And none of his good qualities are there to balance it out. The romance between Hannah and Guttenberg is one of the worst things I've ever seen in a movie.
Rated 20 Jun 2019
38
4th
Came out the same year as Beetlejuice and cost 2 million more. It doesn't even look like it cost 2 cents more. Chintzy production values galore; the castle set looks straight from The Three Stooges. Perhaps that was the intention, but it doesn't really matter when the results are this bad. Some of the ghost effects are passable, but they have nothing on Burton's innovations, or even other ghost films of the late 80's. Guttenberg is terrible, and O'Toole is on auto-ham. It's not funny either.
Rated 18 Apr 2009
39
39th
Haven't seen it lately, but it wasn't necessarily...bad, when I was younger. I'll need to watch it again...
Rated 18 Jun 2012
59
22nd
Daryl Hannah has 9 fingers
Rated 07 Apr 2007
35
13th
Poor.
Rated 04 Dec 2008
10
5th
Håbløs, amatøragtig og den rette vej mod moviejail
Rated 18 Mar 2018
36
23rd
What started off as a potentially fun, if not only mediocre, fantasy/rom-com quickly devolved into a bad comedy slog...right about the time Steve Guttenberg appeared on screen. His black hole of comedic acting alongside the farcical tone combined to create a void of "nomedy" that sucked up any and all entertainment the rest of the movie managed to muster up. On rewatch: the movie was just about as boring and disappointing as I remembered, but there is something quaint about the whole thing.
Rated 14 Feb 2020
75
43rd
I think people are being too hard on this. But I also tend to enjoy juvenile humor, yelling and screaming in place of drama and hysterically fluctuating tones.
Rated 28 Mar 2020
70
54th
Despite Jerry Seinfeld man being among the worst actors of all time, I really enjoyed this movie.
Rated 05 Jan 2022
59
32nd
A bit too many screams in my taste at times, but kind of funny in a silly way. Not the movie of the year but different from some ghost movies. In death becomes her and Casper, similar elements happen, but I won't go as far as saying they took inspiration from this movie?
Rated 15 Apr 2022
50
26th
I think comedy as a genre serves poorly the stories presented by the film. A man accidentally manages to break a centuries long curse on a ghost he ends up falling in love with. But they are unable to consummate due to the fact that one entity is corporal and the other - isn’t. A priest, about to take his vow of abstinence, is tempted by a secular woman he meets by chance. I would have loved to see dedicated drama versions of each!

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