High Spirits (1988)

Ray McAnally: Plunkett Senior

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Quotes 

• Mrs. Plunkett : Good morning, darling!

  Plunkett Senior : Good morning dear! Well, our son is an idiot!

  Mrs. Plunkett : We've known that for years, haven't we, darling?

  Plunkett Senior : Well, this time he has surpassed himself. The ghosts are furious!

  Mrs. Plunkett : Why?

  Plunkett Senior : Well, they've heard that that Jim Brogan fellow is going to move the castle to Malibu!

  Mrs. Plunkett : Oh, how nice! All that sunshine and all those movie stars!

  Plunkett Senior : No respectable ghost would live in California!

• Peter Plunkett : [speaking to the ghost of his father in the office]  What did you have to give me this place for? You knew I was an incompetent! All I wanted to be was happily useless. You made me miserably useless. What did you give me this place for?

  [starts throwing papers up into the air] 

  Peter Plunkett : baths to run, bills to be paid, and then dying on me, just like that! Most people give some warning, you know. Premature senility, angina, gout, bed-ridden for years... but not you. Oh, no, no, no. Healthy as an old goat, you pop off one day in the orchard. And what then? Not a god-damned word, not a whisper? Did it never occur to you I might need some advice?... I missed you Daddy

  Plunkett Senior : Aww! Give your daddy a hug...

  [goes to hug his father, and falls through him, landing on the floor] 

  Plunkett Senior : Oh, sorry. Peter.