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Stiff Upper Lips (1998)

Stiff Upper Lips (1998)

Comedy

This sexual awakening... turns into a hilarious nightmare!

Release Date: 1998, June 12
Directors: Gary Sinyor
Countries: United Kingdom, India
Production: Cavalier Features, Chrysalis Films, Filmania, Isle of Man Film Commission, Isle of Man Government, Ivory Hall, Kaleidoscope Entertainment Pvt. Ltd., Yorkshire Films International
Cast: Robert Portal, Samuel West, John Boswall, Frank Finlay, Mac McDonald, Kate Harper, Brian Glover, Geoffrey Palmer, David Ashton, Peter Ustinov, Sean Pertwee, Jon Croft

Overview:

Stiff Upper Lips is a broad parody of British period films, especially the lavish Merchant-Ivory productions of the 'eighties and early 'nineties. Although it specifically targets A Room with a View, Chariots of Fire, Maurice, A Passage to India, and many other films, in a more general way Stiff Upper Lips satirises popular perceptions of certain Edwardian traits: propriety, sexual repression, xenophobia, and class snobbery.

Keywords:

italy victorian england young woman