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

"This sexual awakening... turns into a hilarious nightmare!"

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.