Blithe Spirit

About Blithe Spirit

A spiritualist medium holds a seance for a writer suffering from writers block but accidentally summons the spirit of his deceased first wife which leads to an increasingly complex love triangle with his current wife of five years.

Blithe Spirit (2020) is a comedy fantasy film directed by Edward Hall. Dan Stevens appears as Charles Condomine, Leslie Mann as Elvira, Isla Fisher as Ruth Condomine, and Judi Dench as Madame Arcati.

It runs 99 minutes and was released in November 2020. Written by Meg Leonard and Nick Moorcroft. It was produced by Fred Films and StudioCanal UK. It is adapted from a stage production.

Shelv files it under playwright, séance, writer's block, and dead wife. In the United States it streams on AcornTV Amazon Channel, Acorn TV Apple TV channel, and AMC+ Amazon Channel. It scores 5.7 out of 10 from 249 TMDB voters and it carries a PG-13 rating.

Blithe Spirit, The Shining, and Les Misérables make useful companions to Blithe Spirit, all filed under ghost, love triangle, and based on play or musical.