| High Spirits | 
 enlarge | List Price: $14.98 (€11.83)
Buy New: $7.44 (€5.88)
You Save: $7.54 (€5.96) (50%)
Buy New/Used from $6.48 (€5.12)
Avg. Customer Rating:   (based on 38 reviews)
Sales Rank: 3007
Category: DVD
Actors: Peter O'toole, Daryl Hannah, Steve Guttenberg, Donal Mccann, Mary Coughlan
Director: Neil Jordan
Publisher: MGM (Video & DVD)
Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
Manufacturer: MGM (Video & DVD)
Label: MGM (Video & DVD)
Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dvd-video, Full Screen, Subtitled, Widescreen, Ntsc
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled), French (Subtitled)
Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Media: DVD
Running Time: 99 minutes
Number Of Items: 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 7.3 x 5.1 x 0.6
MPN: D1003511D
ISBN: 0792852702
UPC: 027616876614
EAN: 9780792852704
ASIN: B000063JDK
Release Date: June 4, 2002
Theatrical Release Date: November 18, 1988
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
|
| Similar Items:
|
| Editorial Reviews:
Description
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!
Amazon.com
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
|
| Customer Reviews: Read 33 more reviews...
 High Spirits October 3, 2008
I love Peter O'Toole whether in this flick or How to Steal a Million he is one of the best English Actors. Darrel Hannah had a lot of fun in her role along with Beverly D'Angelo. A lot of silly fun.
 movies June 3, 2008
I LOVED THIS MOVIE,IT HAS LOTS OF COMEDY AND ROMANCE WITH A LOT OF SPIRIT!!!AMAZON WAS ABLE TO SEND IT TO ME FAST AND WITH A GOOD PRICE.I TRIED FIRST TO PURCHASE THIS FROM A LOCAL MALL AND THEY ORDERED IT FOR ME I WAITED 3 WEEKS AND IT WAS ON BACK ORDER.I FOUND AMAZON.COM ORDERED IT AND GOT IT IN LESS THEN 7 DAY !!!!!!GO AMAZON!!!!!!!!!!
VERY FUNNY! May 19, 2008
A great cast and script make this one of my favorite movies. Very refreshing story line.
 light hearted story April 21, 2008
Whimsical, romantic, sometimes funny. Older movie but can hold its own in todays world for those who want to watch something that the whole family can watch.
High Spirits -- Fun w/ Peter O'Toole January 18, 2008
This movie was panned by every critic at the time of it's release, and rightly so; it is not a 'serious piece of cinema'. I was attracted to this movie only because it featured Peter O'Toole and I wasn't disappointed on that count. O'Toole plays a wonderful 'drunk-yet-erudite' descendant of an ancient Irish family that runs a rather delapidated hotel that is the family castle. The movie revolves around O'Toole's character's attempt to hold on to the family castle by advertising it as a haunted hotel and enlists the staff/villagers in a ridiculous attempt to play "...ghosties,ghoulies and beasties". The story evolves as the first group of guests arrive. Steve Guttenberg plays the husband of a shrew of a wife,Beverly D'Angelo. Daryl Hannah plays the murdered ancestor of O'Toole and Liam Neeson plays the murderous husband - both are ghosts that have been destined to relive the murder night after night. The supporting cast are the real stars along with O'Toole. Liam Neeson makes a decent ghost though his character isn't in the film near enough.
All in all this is a very light-hearted movie that is worth watching for O'Toole, if you can stand Steven Guttenberg and Daryl Hannah who are given way too much screen time.
There is a bit of profanity in the beginning during a phone conversation between O'Toole's character and the mogul that is calling in the mortgage on the castle. There are mild references to sex and there is a good bit of drinking.
|
|
|
