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- 1988
- PG-13
- TriStar Pictures
- 1 h 39 m
- 1988
- PG-13
- TriStar Pictures
- 1 h 39 m
Summary 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.
Directed By: Neil Jordan
Written By: Neil Jordan
- 1988
- PG-13
- TriStar Pictures
- 1 h 39 m
- 1988
- PG-13
- TriStar Pictures
- 1 h 39 m
High Spirits
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Summary 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.
Directed By: Neil Jordan
Written By: Neil Jordan
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Mixed or Average
Based on 11 Critic Reviews
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9% Positive
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73% Mixed
8 Reviews
8 Reviews
18% Negative
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2 Reviews
Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 11 Critic Reviews
47
9% Positive
1 Review
1 Review
73% Mixed
8 Reviews
8 Reviews
18% Negative
2 Reviews
2 Reviews
Once you get past the clumsily antic early scenes, the moody texture can take hold of your imagination. At its best, the film is a soft Irish kiss.
Luckily, High Spirits has a good cast and enough joie de vivre to rise above some of its underlying clumsiness.
It's safe, it's mainstream and it's silly, but Guttenberg and Hannah strike up enough chemistry to give this big budget apparition at least a little depth.
The film shows very little of the nar-rative assurance that has character-ized Jordan's previous work. [21 Nov 1988, p.2C]
Writer-director Neil Jordan shows no knack for comedy, nor is he as kinky as he was on Mona Lisa, and kinky is what is called for.
The American big-movie sex comedy conventions overwhelm Jordan’s liberating poetry, his wild lyricism.
Neil Jordan's High Spirits wants to be a supernatural comedy. But it isn't super, it isn't natural, it isn't high, and it isn't spirited. [18 Nov 1988, p.33]
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