Stiff Upper Lips (1998)
- Directed by
- Gary Sinyor
- Genre
- parody film, LGBTQ-related film
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Runtime
- 1h 39m
- Rated
- R
- Rating
- 5.6 of 10 from 12 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
This film makes fun of old British period dramas. It follows a group of upper-class characters as they travel to Italy and India, while the movie jokes about their proper manners, hidden desires, and snobby attitudes.
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What happens
Stiff Upper Lips is a 1997 film directed by Gary Sinyor and starring Sean Pertwee, Georgina Cates, Robert Portal, Samuel West, Prunella Scales, Peter Ustinov, and Brian Glover in his final film role. It is a broad parody of British period films, especially the lavish Merchant Ivory productions of the 1980s and early 1990s. 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. It was filmed on location in Italy, India, and on the Isle of Man. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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