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Four Weddings And A Funeral (1993) Certificate 15

Four Weddings And A Funeral
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Rated 3.5 stars
Average rating
(69%)
 
Starring: Hugh Grant | Andie MacDowell | Kristin Scott-Thomas | Simon Callow | James Fleet | Charlotte Coleman | John Hannah | David Bower | Rowan Atkinson | Corin Redgrave
Director: Mike Newell
Studio: MGM ENTERTAINMENT
Run time: 112 mins
Collections: 100 must-see movies | 100 Rom-Coms
Genres: Comedy | Romance
Languages: English
Dubbed: French, Spanish
Hearing-impaired: English
Subtitles: Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish
Released: January 29, 2001

Charles (Hugh Grant, in what would become career-defining performance) is a confirmed British bachelor with a colourful romantic background who meets the perfect woman, Carrie (Andie MacDowell), at a friend's wedding. However, Charles's hopes of romance are dashed when Carrie announces she must return to America the next morning. The two continue to cross paths at other people's weddings, never finding each other at a time when both are single. As all of Charles's friends find love, he's left wondering if he will ever be the one going to the altar.

With subtle and light-hearted storytelling, director Mike Newell makes viewers feel intimate with characters who are shown in their happiest and saddest moments. The talented, funny cast--including Kristin Scott Thomas, Simon Callow, and Rowan Atkinson--portrays a very convincing group of friends in search of true love. FOUR WEDDINGS AND A FUNERAL is considered to be the blueprint for all subsequent Working Title romcoms (that would include NOTTING HILL and LOVE ACTUALLY) and has since become a perennial feel-good favourite.

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Rating of 5 stars out of 5
Radio Times

This tale of a hapless bachelor, his friends and their romantic escapades is, in all honesty, little more than a glorified sitcom. But it's also extremely funny, charming, poignant and never anything less than hugely enjoyable. Mike Newell directs with an understatement that allows the rich humour in Richard Curtis's script to shine through, and Hugh Grant and Andie MacDowell will probably never better their performances. The support playing, particularly of Bafta-winning Kristin Scott Thomas and Simon Callow, is also of a very high order. Buoyed by this film's success, the production team reassembled to make 1999's smash-hit, Notting Hill, which also starred Grant.

Rating of 3 stars out of 5
Halliwell's Film Guide

Enjoyable, episodic comedy with expert comic performances, occasionally hindered by its lapses into broad farce and ancient jokes.

Highest rated reviews

13 out of 16 people found the following review helpful:

Rated 4.0 stars
Super Brit Comedy

imran from , 4th November, 2004

A great British comedy that made millions in the states and even after a decade it's still funny, fresh and moving and beats most comedy films hands down. The only thing is.....
*** SPOILER ALERT***
Andie Macdowell's character is clearly a psycho. She sleeps with him after they first meet and suddenly shoots off to America with no explanation. She reappears with fiance in tow and then sleeps with him again after said fiance goes back up north. Then after one of his best friends dies (at her wedding) she proceeds to come onto him after the funeral before finally turning up on his wedding day to tell him she's single again - clearly a complete fruitcake who needs to be locked up!!! They say love is blind but in this case it's gone insane as well.

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8 out of 10 people found the following review helpful:

Rated 0.0 stars
Four Brains Cells and a Moron

zorilla from , 13th April, 2008

87 thousand million people will tell you how much they love this film - and that just proves there are 87 thousand million more idiots in the world than previously thought.

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6 out of 8 people found the following review helpful:

Rated 0.0 stars
I wish I had never seen it

A Customer from Kent, UK, 19th July, 2007

This film gave employment to a lot of British Establishment Acting Luvvies. who should have been sent to retrain in prop and costume department management. They have no talent, look ugly, and annoy the crap out of me. What would have been good would have been a tie up between this movie franchise and the Predator Series (like they did in Predator vs Alien). Yes,.. that would have been good.. watching Predator massacre an English Fop's wedding party.

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4 out of 4 people found the following review helpful:

Rated 5.0 stars

Ken#14 from WEST BROMWICH, 14th June, 2004

Who could possibly resist this movie? Although the ending is a bit of a stretch, Richard Curtis has written a brilliantly charming script and the cast is wonderful. My favorite scene is the richly textured, Scottish wedding. As far as wedding movies go...and wedding flicks are the only 'fluff' movies I like...this is far, far superior to My Best Friend's Wedding. It's a feel good movie with intelligence, a rarity today

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Most recent reviews

Rated 4.0 stars
Four Weddings

venezuela from , 6th February, 2010

I hired this out as it is one of my favourite films. I have watched it around 20 times before hiring the DVD version! If you have been on Mars and have never seen this film, it is a romantic comedy that launched Hugh Grant's career acting with leading American ladies and you must see this.

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Rated 5.0 stars
Four Weddings & a Funeral

bethany2042 from , 25th January, 2009

Excellent movie - very funny and sad at times also.

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Rated 4.0 stars
great movie to watch,full of laughter

A Customer from suffolk,england, 20th January, 2009

great movie to watch, full of laughter,great actors which made the film.

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Rated 4.0 stars
Four Weddings And A Funeral

Darlingpiglet from , 29th December, 2008

All good cleanish fun. (But why Rowan Atkinson thinks it's his best film is beyond me - he's out of tune with the rest of the cast, who are believable types [almost!].)

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