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.
Acting
Peter O'Toole's unhinged descent into actual madness.
Production
Real Irish castle drenched in cheap ghost effects.
Writing
Neil Jordan somehow made this after The Company of Wolves.
Director
Neil Jordan
Peter O'Toole
Peter Plunkett
Daryl Hannah
Mary Plunkett
Steve Guttenberg
Jack Crawford
Beverly D'Angelo
Sharon Brogan Crawford
Jennifer Tilly
Miranda
Liam Neeson
Martin Brogan
Peter Gallagher
Brother Tony
Martin Ferrero
Malcolm
Donal McCann
Eamon
Liz Smith
Mrs. Plunkett
Mary Coughlan
Katie
Tom Hickey
Sampson
Tony Rohr
Christy
Hilary Reynolds
Patricia
Isolde Cazelet
Julia
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Neil Jordan disowned the final cut after producers re-edited his darker original vision into pure slapstick. The theatrical trailer literally uses scenes that barely appear in the finished film.
This bombed so hard it almost killed Jordan's Hollywood career—he retreated to Europe and made The Crying Game four years later, so arguably High Spirits was necessary creative collateral damage.
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