Aunt Agnes (Prunella Scales) vainly tries to force Emily (Georgina Cates) to marry boring Cedric Trilling (Robert Portal) by taking them to Italy and India hoping that Emily will forget about the handsome George (Sean Pertwee).
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Title: Stiff Upper Lips (1998)
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Cast
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David Artus | ... | Hurdler |
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Kevin Furlong | ... | Hurdler |
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Nicholas Selby | ... | Don 1 |
| John Boswall | ... | Don 2 | |
| Samuel West | ... | Edward | |
| Robert Portal | ... | Cedric | |
| Prunella Scales | ... | Aunt Agnes | |
| Georgina Cates | ... | Emily | |
| Frank Finlay | ... | Hudson Junior | |
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Jon Croft | ... | Station Master |
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Charles Simon | ... | Hudson Senior |
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Anna Livia Ryan | ... | Rosie |
| Sean Pertwee | ... | George | |
| Brian Glover | ... | Eric | |
| Geoffrey Palmer | ... | His Butler's Voice | |
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Young upper-class fellow Edward (Samuel West) arrives with his friend Cedric Trilling (Robert Portal) at the family manse, Ivory Hall. He plans to pair off Cedric with his sister Emily (Georgina Cates). Emily, on the other hand, falls in love with a son of local peasant, George (Sean Pertwee). Old Aunt Agnes (Prunella Scales) sends all the bunch off, first to Italy and then to India, so Emily would forget George, who is an undesirable partner for her because of class differences, and choose Cedric.
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I want my sexual awakening and I want it now!Genres:
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12 June 1998 (UK) See more »Also Known As:
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Opening Weekend:
£78,162 (United Kingdom), 14 June 1998, Limited ReleaseOpening Weekend USA:
$15,935, 29 August 1999, Limited ReleaseGross USA:
$68,750, 6 February 2000Company Credits
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I saw this film twice in the first week it came out. This was just as well, as it closed after a week, as nobody else saw it apart from me and a friend. I think that, apart from its DVD availability, it is just about unseen. This is what I would call 'a pity'.
Stiff Upper Lips has, especially in the first half, so many spot on gags that it becomes almost abstract. Death in Venice? Yes. Chariots of Fire? Yes. Maurice? Yes. Every Merchant Ivory film? You bet. And all these jokes are funny. Imagine Airplane, remade in Britain, with better jokes.
And the performances are spot on as well. Peter Ustinov is amusing as a slave trading plantation owner, Georgina Cates is fun as the 'heroine', who spends most of the film whinging, but the honours go to Robert Portal and Samuel West, in a pair of the funniest performances of all time. Every nuance, every line is finely judged. (Is that Forster you're reading? Yes, but I only read him for the landscapes.) Buy a DVD player, get this film, and enjoy.