A spiritualist medium holds a seance for a writer suffering from writers block but accidentally summons the spirit of his deceased first wife which leads to an increasingly complex love triangle with his current wife of five years. Blithe Spirit is an upcoming British comedy film directed by Edward Hall and starring Dan Stevens, Leslie Mann, Isla Fisher, Judi Dench, Emilia Fox, Julian Rhind-Tutt, Adil Ray, Michele Dotrice. Blithe Spirit was later transformed into the Broadway musical +High Spirits, with the original script bent out of shape to turn the character of Madame Arcati Blithe Spirit is beloved by so many people that I feel like a curmudgeon handing it a mixed review.
Novelist conjures up late first wife who can't resist causing trouble in his second marriage. Rex Harrison is the haunted man and Margaret Rutherford is. Blithe Spirit excels with fast paced dialogue and a very polite, very British way of depicting an outrageous story.
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An after-death love story that came way before Swayze and Moore first sat down at a pottery wheel. Blithe Spirit wittily extends the idea that the writer needs only an overnight bag without the extra burden of emotional baggage. The play is at its best, in fact, in the retrospective spats between Charles and his wives over an imperfect past to which the only answer is flight into an indefinite future.
Starring: Charles Condomine, Ruth, Elvira and others. Blithe Spirit, David Lean's delightful film version of Noël Coward's theater sensation (onstage, it broke London box-office records before hitting Broadway), stars Rex Harrison as a novelist who cheekily invites a medium. Movie Reviews. 'Blithe Spirit': EW review. Piers Ashworth ('Fisherman's Friends'), Meg Leonard ('Finding Your Feet') and Nick Moorcroft ('Burke & Hare') adapt Coward's play for the screen.