Stiff Upper Lips

Name: Stiff Upper Lips
Director: Gary Sinyor
Genre: Comedy
Released: 1998-06-12
Duration: 1 h 39 min
Rating: 5.2
Cast: Georgina Cates, Peter Ustinov, Prunella Scales, Samuel West, Sean Pertwee

Directed by Gary Sinyor

Comedy

19981h 39m5.2

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.