not,” and you’ll get a taste of this imitation crab stick “Blithe Spirit.” If your experience with the British playwright is limited — or nonexistent — try the 1945 film version starring Rex Harrison.
That movie, which holds up splendidly, explains everything that’s wrong with this one, directed by Edward Hall.In both, the story is about a writer named Charles (Dan Stevens), who, while scrambling for new material, invites a medium to his home to lead a seance for his wife, Ruth (Isla Fisher), and two friends.
Madame Arcati (Judi Dench) is merely an entertaining fraud, they decide, but later that night, the chipper ghost of Charles’ dead wife Elvira (Leslie Mann) appears.
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