History Film / HighSpirits

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 SpecialEffectFailure 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 show up.

* TheAllegedCar: The hotel's bus.

* BrattyHalfPint: The parapsychologist's children.
* CloudCuckoolander: Mrs. Plunkett. Good grief. Miranda also qualifies.
* DaddysGirl: Sharon.

* TheDitz: Miranda.

* HairOfGoldHeartOfGold: Mary.
* HenpeckedHusband: Jack.

* ShirtlessScene: Creator/LiamNeeson gets a couple.

* YourCheatingHeart: Jack ''and'' Sharon. Unusually for the trope, it ends positively for both of them. (Well, apart from [[spoiler: Sharon ''dying,'' but since that means she can be with Martin she doesn't seem too bothered by it.]] )

* HollywoodHomely: Mary describes Martin as disgusting, with smelly feet. Martin is played by a thirty-six year old '' Creator/LiamNeeson. '' Who gets at least two shirtless scenes.

* NotEvenBotheringWithTheAccent: Peter Seamus O'Toole is the most English-sounding Irishman ''ever'', despite being born in County Galway. (He grew up in Leeds.) Liz Smith likewise doesn't bother trying for an Irish accent as Mrs. Plunkett.

* YourCheatingHeart: Jack ''and'' Sharon. Unusually for the trope, it ends positively for both of them. (Well, apart from [[spoiler: Sharon ''dying,'' but since that means she can be with Martin she doesn't seem too bothered by it.]] )

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The guy who directed ''High Spirits'' is better known for other movies (Neil Jordan, [[HeAlsoDid better known]] for literal Oscar winners like ''Film/TheCryingGame'' and ''Film/InterviewWithTheVampire'') and so are the cast. Creator/PeterOToole is almost DrivenToSuicide 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.

O'Toole 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 SpecialEffectFailure 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 O'Toole plans to return to his suicide attempts until the ''real'' ghosts of his ancestors show up.

The EnsembleCast has a variety of little storylines, but the main storyline, other than the one involving O'Toole and his ancestors' ghosts, focuses on a married couple, Jack and Sharon, played by Creator/SteveGuttenberg and [[Film/NationalLampoonsVacation Beverly D'Angelo]], who 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 (Creator/DarylHannah and Creator/LiamNeeson), who are stuck in a GroundhogDayLoop 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.

The guy who directed ''High Spirits'' is better known for other movies(Neil Jordan, [[HeAlsoDid better known]] for literal Oscar winners like ''Film/TheCryingGame'' and ''Film/InterviewWithTheVampire'') and so are the cast. Peter O'Toole is almost DrivenToSuicide 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.

The EnsembleCast has a variety of little storylines, but the main storyline, other than the one involving O'Toole and his ancestors' ghosts, focuses on a married couple, Jack and Sharon, played by [[Film/PoliceAcademy Steve Guttenberg]] and [[Film/NationalLampoonsVacation Beverly D'Angelo]], who 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 (Creator/DarylHannah and Creator/LiamNeeson), who are stuck in a GroundhogDayLoop 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.

The EnsembleCast has a variety of little storylines, but the main storyline, other than the one involving O'Toole and his ancestors' ghosts, focuses on a married couple, Jack and Sharon, played by [[PoliceAcademy Steve Guttenberg]] and [[Film/NationalLampoonsVacation Beverly D'Angelo]], who 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 (Creator/DarylHannah and Creator/LiamNeeson), who are stuck in a GroundhogDayLoop 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.

* NotEvenBotheringWithTheAccent: Peter Seamus O'Toole is the most English-sounding Irishman ''ever'', despite being born in County Galway. (He grew up in Leeds.)

* OohMeAccentsSlipping: Daryl Hannah's Irish accent is pretty terrible.

* DrivenToSuicide: Martin.

* HollywoodHomely: Mary describes Martin as disgusting, with smelly feet. Martin is played by '' Creator/LiamNeeson. '' Who gets at least two shirtless scenes.

* MistakenForCheating: Martin with Mary.

* PairTheSpares: Martin and Sharon.

* SpecialEffectsFailure: In-Universe example. The hotel staff's attempts at pretending the hotel is haunted are cringeworthy.

* ThereIsAGod: The lord of a castle fails to make it tourist attraction. He's so depressed he's thinking of hanging himself, but a storm means the guests have to stay, so he says this.

* YourCheatingHeart: Jack ''and'' Sharon. Unusually for the trope, it ends positively for both of them.

Pretty much HeyItsThatGuy: The Movie, from the guy who directed it (Neil Jordan, [[HeAlsoDid better known]] for literal Oscar winners like ''Film/TheCryingGame'' and ''Film/InterviewWithTheVampire'') to its cast. Peter O'Toole is almost DrivenToSuicide 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.

* YourCheatingHeart: Jack ''and'' Sharon. Unusually for the trope, it ends positively for both of them.

The EnsembleCast has a variety of little storylines, but the main storyline, other than the one involving O'Toole and his ancestors' ghosts, focuses on a married couple, Jack and Sharon, played by [[PoliceAcademy Steve Guttenberg]] and [[Film/NationalLampoonsVacation Beverly D'Angelo]], who 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 (Creator/DarylHannah and [[{{Film/ThePhantomMenace}} Liam Neeson]]), who are stuck in a GroundhogDayLoop 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.

* FakeIrish: Daryl Hannah, complete with terrible accent. Peter O'Toole doesn't even try. The rest of the Irish cast are actually Irish actors, though.

* ShirtlessScene: LiamNeeson gets a couple.

Pretty much HeyItsThatGuy: The Movie, from the guy who directed it (Neil Jordan, [[HeAlsoDid better known]] for literal Oscar winners like ''TheCryingGame'' and ''InterviewWithTheVampire'') to its cast. Peter O'Toole is almost DrivenToSuicide 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.

The EnsembleCast has a variety of little storylines, but the main storyline, other than the one involving O'Toole and his ancestors' ghosts, focuses on a married couple, Jack and Sharon, played by [[PoliceAcademy Steve Guttenberg]] and [[Film/NationalLampoonsVacation Beverly D'Angelo]], who 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 ([[{{Creator/DarylHannah}} Daryl Hannah]] and [[{{Film/ThePhantomMenace}} Liam Neeson]]), who are stuck in a GroundhogDayLoop 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.

* NotEvenBotheringWithTheAccent: Peter O'Toole is the most English-sounding Irishman ''ever''.

* ThereIsAGod: The lord of a castle fails to make it tourist attraction. He's so depressed he's thinking of hanging himself, but a storm means the guests have to stay, so he says this.

The EnsembleCast has a variety of little storylines, but the main storyline, other than the one involving O'Toole and his ancestors' ghosts, focuses on a married couple, Jack and Sharon, played by [[PoliceAcademy Steve Guttenberg]] and [[Film/NationalLampoonsVacation Beverly D'Angelo]], who 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 ([[{{Creator/DarylHannah}} Daryl Hannah]] and [[{{Film/ThePhantomMenace}} Liam Neeson]]), who are stuck in a GroundhogDayLoop 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.

The EnsembleCast has a variety of little storylines, but the main storyline, other than the one involving O'Toole and his ancestors' ghosts, focuses on a married couple, Jack and Sharon, played by [[PoliceAcademy Steve Guttenberg]] and [[Film/NationalLampoonsVacation Beverly D'Angelo]], who 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 ([[{{Creator/DarylHannah}} Daryl Hannah]] and [[[[{{Film/ThePhantomMenace}} Liam Neeson]]), who are stuck in a GroundhogDayLoop 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.

The EnsembleCast has a variety of little storylines, but the main storyline, other than the one involving O'Toole and his ancestors' ghosts, focuses on a married couple, Jack and Sharon, played by [[PoliceAcademy Steve Guttenberg]] and [[Film/NationalLampoonsVacation Beverly D'Angelo]], who 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 ([[{{Creator/DarylHannah}} Daryl Hannah]] and [[ThePhantomMenace Liam Neeson]]), who are stuck in a GroundhogDayLoop 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.

The EnsembleCast has a variety of little storylines, but the main storyline, other than the one involving O'Toole and his ancestors' ghosts, focuses on a married couple, Jack and Sharon, played by [[PoliceAcademy Steve Guttenberg]] and [[Film/NationalLampoonsVacation Beverly D'Angelo]], who 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 ([[{{Splash}} Daryl Hannah]] and [[ThePhantomMenace Liam Neeson]]), who are stuck in a GroundhogDayLoop 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.