High Spirits

About High Spirits

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.

Neil Jordan's High Spirits is a 1988 comedy fantasy film. It runs 99 minutes and was released in November 1988.

Its themes are campy, lighthearted, spirit, and halloween.

Peter O'Toole appears as Peter Plunkett, Daryl Hannah as Mary Plunkett, Steve Guttenberg as Jack Crawford, and Beverly D'Angelo as Sharon Brogan Crawford. The screenplay is by Neil Jordan. In the United States it streams on Amazon Prime Video, Amazon Prime Video with Ads, and ScreenPix Amazon Channel.

Amélie, The Conjuring 2, and The Nun make useful companions to High Spirits, all filed under romcom. TMDB voters put it at 5.8 out of 10 across 257 votes and it carries a PG-13 rating.