Stiff Upper Lips
| Stiff Upper Lips | |
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| Directed by | Gary Sinyor |
| Written by | Paul Simpkin and Gary Sinyor |
| Produced by | Nigel Savage Babs Thomas Stephen Margolis Keith Richardson Bobby Bedi Ricky Posner Nigel Savage |
| Starring | Sean Pertwee Georgina Cates Prunella Scales Peter Ustinov Samuel West Frank Finlay Brian Glover Robert Portal |
| Edited by | Peter Hollywood |
| Music by | David Hughes John Murphy |
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| Distributed by | Metrodome |
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| Country | United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
| Box office | £203,000 (UK) |
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.