
Tea on the lawn, a young girl's sexual awakening in Italy and a working-class love affair: from a distance it all sounds like a typical period drama, A Room With A Different View. Only it isn't. Stiff Upper Lips is an ambitious send-up of turn-of-the-century Jane Austenism. It's Merchant Ivory played for cheap laughs - - all corsets, lace, haughty-manners and quick-fire gaggery.
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