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

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)

Trailer

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