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Audiences rate it 21 points higher than critics do.
Synopsis
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.
Ratings
IMDb6.1/10
Rotten Tomatoes40%
Audiences rate it 21 points higher than critics do.
12 audience votes
Key crew
- Paul SimpkinWriter
- Gary SinyorWriter
- Gary SinyorDirector
Cast
- Georgina CatesEmily
- Peter UstinovHorace Wiggins
- Prunella ScalesAunt Agnes
- Samuel WestEdward
- Sean PertweeGeorge
- David ArtusHurdler
- Kevin FurlongHurdler
- Nicholas SelbyDon 1
- John BoswallDon 2
- Robert PortalCedric
- Frank FinlayHudson Junior
- Geoffrey PalmerHis Butler's Voice
Stills
Themes
italyvictorian englandyoung woman