Academy Awards, USA 1995
| Nominated Oscar | Best Picture Duncan Kenworthy |
| Best Writing, Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen Richard Curtis |
Gramercy Pictures
Directed by Mike Newell
My rating: 2.5 stars out of 4
IMDb Wikipedia
(Blu-ray, MGM/Fox)
Hugh Grant and Andie MacDowell have a one night stand after meeting at a mutual friend's wedding. She heads back to America supposedly gone for good, but they meet a few months later at another wedding and have a repeat performance in bed. Grant is totally smitten by this point, but her new fiance gives him little hope. The third wedding is for MacDowell and her stuffy older boyfriend, which he reluctantly attends. One of his friends dies suddenly during the ceremony, leading to the sole funeral in the plot. The fourth and final wedding is his own, to an old flame he is not really sure about, which turns into a fiasco when MacDowell shows up and tells him she has split from her husband. There is, of course, a happy ending. Contrived "rom-com" is pleasant enough I suppose, but entirely predictable and with hardly a brain between any of the characters.
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