Blithe Spirit (2020)

Noel Coward's 1941 comedic play Blithe Spirit received its second film adaptation in 2020, 75 years after director David Lean first brought it to the screen. Dan Stevens stars as Charles, a successful author who wishes to write a novel involving the occult, which leads him to hire eccentric medium Madame Arcati (Judi Dench) to host a séance at his home. Charles and his second wife Ruth (Isla Fisher) are excited by the event, but their excitement soon turns to despair when they learn that Madame Arcati uses the Irving Berlin tune "Always" as part of the séance. This song was the wedding song of Charles and his first wife Elvira (Leslie Mann) who died seven years ago and is brought back to the corporeal realm when the song is played. The free spirited and mischievous Elvira is disappointed that her husband has remarried such a dour and straight laced woman as Ruth, determining that the only way for him to be happy again is to cut the brake line on his car so that he can die and join her in the afterlife. Unfortunately, it's Ruth who uses the car next and is killed, causing her vengeful spirit to return immediately and seek retribution against Elvira! Sadly, this turns out to not be the flick in which Isla Fisher decided to make her nude debut, though the ravishing redhead does look sexy as hell in several period appropriate cleavage baring costumes! As it turns out, when it comes to writing nude scenes for his female characters, Noel was quite the Coward!