Charles (Hugh Grant) is a confirmed British bachelor with a colorful 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.
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Hugh Grant as Charles (Wedding one)
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[talking about his new wife, Laura]
Angus the Groom: Ignore her. She's drunk. At least I hope she is. Otherwise I'm in real trouble.
Where romantic comedy is concerned, I am a tough sell. Too many of them seem to put across the impression that all you need to do is put two people on the screen and have them end up together, regardless of whether or not they are developed with an interesting conflict (or even speak to one another, as in the monstrously overhyped SLEEPLESS IN SEATTLE). I'm not going to turn into a pile of goo every time I see a screen kiss, but I will respond if I've spent two hours with two well-developed characters who seem to belong together. The new British comedy FOUR WEDDINGS AND A FUNERAL delivers only halfway. Hugh Grant turns in a charming, star-making performance in this uneven character piece, but Andie MacDowell always appears to be more of a prop than a person.