Stiff Upper Lips (1998)

99 min · LGBTQ-related film, Parodie, Romantic Comedy, parody film

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Directors

Gary Sinyor

Cast

Peter Ustinov, Prunella Scales, Georgina Cates, Samuel West, Robert Portal, Sean Pertwee, Frank Finlay, Brian Glover, David Artus, Kevin Furlong

The story

England, 1908: Emily Ivory (Cates) is a wealthy young woman who lives with her Aunt Agnes (Scales) at Ivory's End, a large country house. At 22, as her aunt constantly reminds her, she is verging on spinsterhood. She meets her brother's best friend, Cedric Trilling (Portal), when the two come home from university.

Catalogue themes and tags

Butler, Class Conflict, Clowning, Indien, Italy, Male Nudity, Man looking for Wife, Mutter-Tochter-Beziehung, Repressed Homosexual, Sexual Awakening, True Love, Victorian England, Woman Looking For A Husband, schwanger, LGBT, Parody, Comedy of manners, Comedy

Genres

LGBTQ-related film, Parodie, Romantic Comedy, parody film

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