Stiff Upper Lips

1998 5.6 (10 votes) 1h 39m

Genres

Comedy

Production Companies

Cavalier Features
Chrysalis Films
Filmania
Isle of Man Film Commission
Isle of Man Government
Ivory Hall
Kaleidoscope Entertainment Pvt. Ltd.
Yorkshire Films International

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.