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High Spirits

158 statements
30 feature instances
8 referencing feature instances

High Spirits	type	TVTItem
High Spirits	label	High Spirits
High Spirits	page	HighSpirits
High Spirits	comment	High Spirits is a 1988 fantasy comedy film directed by Neil Jordan and starring Steve Guttenberg, Daryl Hannah, Beverly D'Angelo, Liam Neeson and Peter O'Toole.Peter Plunkett (O'Toole) is almost Driven to Suicide when he's unable to pay the bills on his family castle, which he's turned into a hotel/theatre because of said bills. Until his seemingly Cloudcuckoolander mother informs him that she's been having conversations with his father — who's been dead for years.Plunkett gets the idea to attract American tourists by advertising the hotel as haunted and gets the castle's thespians and employees to pretend to be ghosts. The Special Effect Failure by the actors tips off the Americans that the hauntings are fake, if it wasn't already obvious by the time they were heading towards the castle, and Plunkett plans to return to his suicide attempts until the real ghosts of his ancestors decide if everybody wants a haunted castle, then that's exactly what they're going to get.A married couple, Jack and Sharon (Guttenberg and D'Angelo), are having problems, and are only there because Sharon's father is trying to get the deed to the castle, and having the castle's hauntings revealed as fake would benefit this greatly. Things don't go as planned, though, because Jack and Sharon begin individual romances with a pair of ghosts, Mary Plunkett and Martin Brogan (Hannah and Neeson), who are stuck in a "Groundhog Day" Loop with Mary repeatedly being murdered by Martin, because he believes her to be unfaithful because she doesn't sleep with him on their wedding night.
High Spirits	fetched	2023-07-26T11:43:04Z
High Spirits	parsed	2023-07-26T11:43:04Z
High Spirits	isPartOf	DBTropes
High Spirits / int_1779f10e	type	"Well Done, Son" Guy
High Spirits / int_1779f10e	comment	"Well Done, Son" Guy: All Peter ever wanted was some encouragement from his Daddy. He finally gets some, even if Daddy's a ghost.
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High Spirits / int_17d55c6e	type	Nuns Are Spooky
High Spirits / int_17d55c6e	comment	Nuns Are Spooky: As Brother Tony grapples with his attraction to Miranda, he prays to have his impure thoughts cleansed. Cue the appearance of spectral nuns in terrifying winged wimples and blank, faceless heads with glowing eyesnote Think Jawa faces that rush him out a third story window. Fortunately, the alleged pool is below.
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High Spirits / int_18d15922	type	Title Drop
High Spirits / int_18d15922	comment	Title Drop: Of sorts. Jack is handed a book titled "The Book of High Spirits".
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High Spirits / int_19fe3478	type	Daddy's Girl
High Spirits / int_19fe3478	comment	Daddy's Girl: Sharon. Uses her second honeymoon to drag her unwitting husband to a castle her heartless father wants to foreclose on and ship across the Atlantic at least in part because he hates the current owners. Yes, Sharon knows all of this, acknowledges to her husband that her father "hates everybody," and even after being outed on her two-faced nature still sides with daddy.
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High Spirits / int_1e7e4b00	type	Dinner Theatre
High Spirits / int_1e7e4b00	comment	Dinner Theatre: Mr. Plunkett has a very odd nautical-themed arrangement on a stage in the castle's dining room and bar, with scenery such as a mermaid and rushing waves being manipulated by crew to the sides while he monologues in front. The ghosts take it over later and stage a much more dynamic prodiction involving a Giant Squid... and a little unwilling Audience Participation.
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High Spirits / int_2d7ef923	type	Mistaken for Cheating
High Spirits / int_2d7ef923	comment	Mistaken for Cheating: Martin with Mary. She wasn't sleeping with anyone else; she just didn't want to sleep with him.
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High Spirits / int_35b241c0	type	Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping
High Spirits / int_35b241c0	comment	Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping: Daryl Hannah's Irish accent is pretty terrible. It's all the more jarring because the other Irish characters are played by actual Irish actors.
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High Spirits / int_415b3315	type	Stylistic Suck
High Spirits / int_415b3315	comment	Stylistic Suck: The fake ghost show put on by the castle's denizens is pretty terrible, with a "banshee" being pulleyed between windows via an obvious rope, a set of knight armor in roller skates, and an incredibly obvious Pepper's Ghost effect. Once the real ghosts take action, this ends.
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High Spirits / int_43b154c9	type	Not Even Bothering with the Accent
High Spirits / int_43b154c9	comment	Not Even Bothering with the Accent: Peter Seamus O'Toole really failed to affect an Irish accent, despite being half Irish (he was born and grew up in Leeds though.) Liz Smith likewise doesn't bother trying for an Irish accent as Mrs. Plunkett.
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High Spirits / int_4583a262	type	Shirtless Scene
High Spirits / int_4583a262	comment	Shirtless Scene: Liam Neeson gets a couple. While the makeup department didn't do him any favors, it's still Liam Neeson.
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High Spirits / int_4f6d87f7	type	Huge Guy, Tiny Girl
High Spirits / int_4f6d87f7	comment	Huge Guy, Tiny Girl: Martin and Sharon. Happens when your actor is 6'4" and your actress is 5'2".
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High Spirits / int_5941d75	type	Beta Couple
High Spirits / int_5941d75	comment	Beta Couple: Martin and Sharon.
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High Spirits / int_644eca71	type	Rich Bitch
High Spirits / int_644eca71	comment	Rich Bitch: Sharon.
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High Spirits / int_6d332aea	type	Driven to Suicide
High Spirits / int_6d332aea	comment	Driven to Suicide: Martin, when he regretted killing Mary in a fit of rage.
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High Spirits / int_707bb8ce	type	Pair the Spares
High Spirits / int_707bb8ce	comment	Pair the Spares: Martin and Sharon, who are much more suited for each other than their respective partners.
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High Spirits / int_72852a93	type	Henpecked Husband
High Spirits / int_72852a93	comment	Henpecked Husband: Jack. Just about every time he tries to have a normal interaction with his wife or even just a discussion, it frequently ends up with her on the attack and him trying to re-establish peace. The one time he does stand up to her, it's because he thought he was dead and she couldn't hear him. She could. He paid. Again.
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High Spirits / int_77315f4f	type	You Have to Believe Me!
High Spirits / int_77315f4f	comment	You Have to Believe Me!: Jack is very, very insistent that he's seen ghosts. Sharon is understandably skeptical, until she meets one herself.
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High Spirits / int_7d89315b	type	"The Reason You Suck" Speech
High Spirits / int_7d89315b	comment	"The Reason You Suck" Speech: Plunkett gets one in on his father's ghost, dressing him down for abruptly dying and leaving him holding the bag on the run-down, debt-ridden castle while never offering any encouragement or warmth. They reconcile afterward, although the hug doesn't really work.
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High Spirits / int_82fc5bdf	type	Bratty Half-Pint
High Spirits / int_82fc5bdf	comment	Bratty Half-Pint: The parapsychologist's children. Like father, like kids.
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High Spirits / int_8748f851	type	Brainy Brunette
High Spirits / int_8748f851	comment	Brainy Brunette: Completely averted with Miranda.
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High Spirits / int_8b4f2a4f	type	'80s Hair
High Spirits / int_8b4f2a4f	comment	'80s Hair: Well, it was made in 1988.
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High Spirits / int_8b68d9a7	type	Stalker with a Crush
High Spirits / int_8b68d9a7	comment	Stalker with a Crush: Martin for Sharon, albeit briefly.
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High Spirits / int_8d411e7c	type	SpecialEffectsFailure
High Spirits / int_8d411e7c	comment	Special Effects Failure: In-Universe example. The hotel staff's attempts at pretending the hotel is haunted are cringe worthy.
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High Spirits / int_a8b7f968	type	Love at First Punch
High Spirits / int_a8b7f968	comment	Love at First Punch: Martin really starts to fall for Sharon when she kicks him "in the ba-hoogies" and punches him in the nose.
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High Spirits / int_bb0c0a4d	type	Fiery Redhead
High Spirits / int_bb0c0a4d	comment	Fiery Redhead: Martin is something of a male example. He sure as hell has a Hair-Trigger Temper for most of the movie, though it's Played for Laughs.
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High Spirits / int_d46ddfa2	type	CloudCuckooLander
High Spirits / int_d46ddfa2	comment	Cloud Cuckoolander: Mrs. Plunkett. However, not so much as she first seems - or as most of the characters assume. She goes on about the feelings of dead people and ghosts because she talks to them and is married to one of them. Miranda also qualifies.
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High Spirits / int_e2d457	type	The Ditz
High Spirits / int_e2d457	comment	The Ditz: Miranda. Jennifer Tilly turns the ditz knob up pretty high as only she can.
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High Spirits / int_f237981e	type	The Alleged Car
High Spirits / int_f237981e	comment	The Alleged Car: The hotel's bus. The first was fairly solid but for the occasional backfire, at least until it went into the lake. It's even worse for the wear during its encore. The second bus definitely qualifies as it falls to bits during a storm, although it's fair to say it had help.
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High Spirits / int_fd5b9124	type	There Is a God!
High Spirits / int_fd5b9124	comment	There Is a God!: The lord of a castle fails to make it a tourist attraction. He's so depressed he's thinking of hanging himself (again) but a storm means the guests have to stay, so he says this.
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The following is a list of statements referring to the current page from other pages.

HighSpirits	seeAlso	High Spirits
High Spirits	hasFeature	Friendly Ghost / int_f58506e6
High Spirits	hasFeature	Giant Squid / int_f58506e6
High Spirits	hasFeature	"Groundhog Day" Loop / int_f58506e6
High Spirits	seeAlso	High Spirits
High Spirits	hasFeature	Just Ignore It / int_f58506e6
High Spirits	hasFeature	Not Even Bothering with the Accent / int_f58506e6
High Spirits	hasFeature	There Is a God! / int_f58506e6

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