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Stiff Upper Lips

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Stiff Upper Lips
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R,1hr 34min
Genre:
Comedy
Release:
1997
Director:
Gary Sinyor
Distributor:
Miramax
Starring:
Peter Ustinov, Prunella Scales, Georgina Cates  ...more
Synopsis: This 5.7-million-dollar British comedy from writer/director Gary Sinyor satirizes the now-familiar Merchant-Ivory style of period dramas. So no one will miss the joke, the central setting is Ivory Hall, the Ivory family mansion in rural England. In 1908, young twit Edward Ivory (Samuel West) plans to match his bookwormish friend Cedric (Robert Portal) with his 22-year-old sister, Emily (Georgina Cates), and introduces the two at Ivory Hall. However, Emily is instead attracted to gamekeeper George ... Full Synopsis
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Derek Armstrong, AMG Review
It's easy to see why Stiff Upper Lips was not a bigger hit. Traditional parody movie fans would gravitate toward broader target genres -- action movies, mob movies -- rather than Merchant-Ivory fare, and ardent fans of British period pieces may not naturally enjoy seeing their sacred cows lampooned. But Gary Sinyor's film contains some very witty observations about the stuffed shirts who populate films ... Full Review
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Peter Ustinov
Horace
Prunella Scales
Aunt Agnes Ivory
Georgina Cates
Emily Ivory
Samuel West
Edward Ivory
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