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Release Date: 19 December, 2000 Retail Price: $14.98 OUR Price: $9.99 You SAVE: $4.99! Cast: Complete Cast (11 total) |
Four Weddings and a Funeral Reviews
An ambitious and successful proposal !
Mike Newell's secure directorial abilities allowed this reflective comedy -seemed to be inspired in the famous stylistic tradition of Oscar Wilde. The occurrences of a irreverent womanly is seen through a warm friendship, but at the time his friends get marry, he feels the social conventions exert the invisible pressure through suggestive comments, until he hits off with another wedding guest. If you are not absolutely involved with the spirit of the British comedy, maybe you experience the sensation of being out of focus with this existential comedy which works out as a healthy life's lesson, respect the in and outs of the singleness.
But if you are disposed and accustomed to this genre, come and enjoy one of most original and marvelous comedies of the Nineties which consolidated Grant as one of the maxim exponents of this engaging genre.
Totally recommended.
worth owning - can view many times
Mike Newell, of "Enchanted April", (and if you have never seen this one, or read the book, you are really missing something) has done it again. It was good, good, good! Very funny and beautiful to watch. Gorgeous churches, clothes, men, flowers, etc. Hugh Grant (who I think is vastly underated, as he has done such films as "Impromptu", "Sirens", "Bitter Moon" and "Maurice" with impressive acting) is much like Cary Grant. And Simon Callow (who was the minister in "A Room With a View") as Gareth really almost steals the movie. I did agree with one reviewer who said that Andie McDowell seemed a bit wooden here. She was better in "Groundhog Day", which this movie is very like in tone. It is hilariously funny, and yet there's a serious edge and undercurrent. In the former, it was about being a good person; here it's about committing to one person. There were lots of good little touches, like the wonderfully baroque vests that Gareth always wore, and then, Matthew, his lover, took to wearing them also. And as one reviewer noted, incorporating a deaf man, and a "married" gay couple into the plot with such ease, was really quite a feat. I also like the actor who played Bernard. The scene at the first wedding with the minister blowing his lines in the wedding vows was truly a stitch. Also with Colin Redgreave.
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