
Blithe Spirit(1945)
A harmless séance at a novelist's home summons the ghost of his glamorous first wife.


“True love never dies.”
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.

Dan Stevens
Charles Condomine

Leslie Mann
Elvira

Isla Fisher
Ruth Condomine

Judi Dench
Madame Arcati

Julian Rhind-Tutt
Dr. George Bradman

Emilia Fox
Violet Bradman

Dave Johns
Harold

James Fleet
Harry Price

Adil Ray
Mandeep Singh

Aimee-Ffion Edwards
Edith
Blithe Spirit is a comedy, fantasy, romance film released in 2020 exploring themes of love triangle, writer's block, based on play or musical, playwright, writer, ghost. Directed by Edward Hall, it stars Dan Stevens, Leslie Mann, Isla Fisher. 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.
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