High Spirits with Daryl Hannah: DVD Cover

    High Spirits Director: Neil Jordan Cast: Daryl Hannah, Peter O'Toole, Steve Guttenberg, Beverly D'Angelo

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    • DVD Release Date: 06/04/2002
    • Original Release: 1988
    • Rating: Rated PG13
    • Sales Rank: 4,511

    Viewer Rating: (7 ratings)

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    Features

    Closed Caption; Original theatrical trailer; English stereo; English, French & Spanish language subtitles

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    Scene Index

    Side #1 -- Widescreen
    1. Main Title/Ghosts [5:55]
    2. Visitors Arrive [6:32]
    3. Settling In [6:35]
    4. Supernatural Sham [7:06]
    5. Business [6:20]
    6. Mary Plunkett [6:57]
    7. Time to Leave [10:28]
    8. Break the Curse [5:09]
    9. Weird Happenings [5:41]
    10. Ghost Love [4:50]
    11. Father and Son [3:35]
    12. Stranded at Sea [5:58]
    13. Quest for Love [7:16]
    14. Young Again [7:29]
    15. Empty Castle [3:26]
    16. End Credits [4:16]
    Side #2 -- Standard
    1. Main Title/Ghosts [5:55]
    2. Visitors Arrive [6:32]
    3. Settling In [6:35]
    4. Supernatural Sham [7:06]
    5. Business [6:20]
    6. Mary Plunkett [6:57]
    7. Time to Leave [10:28]
    8. Break the Curse [5:09]
    9. Weird Happenings [5:41]
    10. Ghost Love [4:50]
    11. Father and Son [3:35]
    12. Stranded at Sea [5:58]
    13. Quest for Love [7:16]
    14. Young Again [7:28]
    15. Empty Castle [3:25]
    16. End Credits [4:17]

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    Editorial Reviews

    The owner of an Irish castle decides to attract visitors by falsely claiming that the building is haunted, only to have a pair of real ancestral spirits start causing trouble in this uneven attempt at fantasy-comedy. The story centers on Jack and Sharon (played by Steve Guttenberg and Beverly D'Angelo), naive American tourists who are initially unimpressed by the owner's attempts at fraud but become more interested in the real ghosts, Mary and Martin (played by Daryl Hannah and Liam Neeson). This is especially true for Jack, who falls in love with the beautiful Mary, despite several centuries' difference in their ages. After the film's initial unsuccessful release, people involved with the production blamed studio interference for damaging director Neil Jordan's original vision, although Jordan is better known as a director of quirky, dark dramas (Mona Lisa, The Crying Game, Interview With a Vampire, The Company of Wolves). For whatever reason, the end result was an awkward, forced comedy that more often than not falls flat, squandering a strong collection of talent. Judd Blaise, All Movie Guide

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    Movie left me in High Spiritsby FoxyPainter

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    July 04, 2009: It is entertaining and funny. Loved Peter O'Toole's role in this movie.

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    June 09, 2008: Neil Jordan's name on a movie is some kind of recommendation for some of us, but this one is a bit uneven, as the cited professional reviewer says. It's a movie that I'm unaccountably fond of despite its faults, however. The most jarring note is the casting of Steve Guttenberg as the American tourist husband of Beverly D'Angelo who falls in love with the ghost played by Darryl Hannah. The English and Irish casting is excellent however. Guttenberg does do well in his scenes with Peter O'Toole, showing that great actors can carry lesser ones along with them, like Michael Jordan in basketball. The most pleasant aspect of the film is the fine mood that begins to emerge when one of the Irish female cast begins to sing a sad and lilting Irish ballad on the night of the first dinner of the tourists. There are beautiful scenes of the castle from the lake and the Irish countryside as well. Unfortunately the comedy veers constantly from ironic and amusing to just silly and annoying. However, if one is patient, by the end one may feel as though Jordan, originally a writer not a movie director, had produced an homage to Shakespeare's romantic comedies, like Midsummer Night's Dream. The last line: "Happiness, Sir Jack." is good.


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