Stiff Upper Lips

For other uses, see Stiff upper lip (disambiguation).

Stiff Upper Lips
Directed byGary Sinyor
Written byPaul Simpkin and Gary Sinyor
Produced byNigel Savage
Babs Thomas
Stephen Margolis
Keith Richardson
Bobby Bedi
Ricky Posner
Nigel Savage
StarringSean Pertwee
Georgina Cates
Prunella Scales
Peter Ustinov
Samuel West
Frank Finlay
Brian Glover
Robert Portal
Edited byPeter Hollywood
Music byDavid Hughes
John Murphy
Production
companies
Distributed byMetrodome
Release dates
  • February 1997 (1997-02) (AFM)
  • November 1997 (1997-11) (BFI London Film Festival)
  • June 12, 1998 (1998-06-12) (United Kingdom)
  • August 27, 1999 (1999-08-27) (United States)
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CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish
Box office£203,000 (UK)[1]

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.[2] It was filmed on location in Italy, India, and on the Isle of Man.

  1. ^ a b "British biz at the box office". Variety. 14 December 1998. p. 72.
  2. ^ "Movies : The Misadventures of Peter Ustinov : His latest film, 'Stiff Upper Lips,' lets him poke fun at the staid English stereotype that so many people wrongly think he embodies". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 3 June 2012.