
‘Four Weddings and a Funeral’: THR’s 1994 Sundance Review

Four Weddings and a Funeral premiered in Park City in 1994, going on to become a classic of the 90s rom-com oeuvre. The Hollywood Reporter’s original review is below:
Four Weddings and a Funeral, which premieres tonight as the kickoff to this year’s Sundance Film Festival, is a romantic comedy in the grand old style of top hats and champagne. Yet underneath its tony trappings and frothy topping, this Gramercy release is unfortunately layered with an inner unkindness and coated with a snide incivility that saps its overall merriment. Still, it should win some mixed applause among select-site audiences starved for romantic mirth in this block(buster)-headed age.
Chipper Charles (Hugh Grant) finds he’s best man in many a wedding but never the groom. Charles is a breezily chatty chap with a Tory’s grace for flattery and a cad’s capacity for cattery. A charming sort,...
Four Weddings and a Funeral, which premieres tonight as the kickoff to this year’s Sundance Film Festival, is a romantic comedy in the grand old style of top hats and champagne. Yet underneath its tony trappings and frothy topping, this Gramercy release is unfortunately layered with an inner unkindness and coated with a snide incivility that saps its overall merriment. Still, it should win some mixed applause among select-site audiences starved for romantic mirth in this block(buster)-headed age.
Chipper Charles (Hugh Grant) finds he’s best man in many a wedding but never the groom. Charles is a breezily chatty chap with a Tory’s grace for flattery and a cad’s capacity for cattery. A charming sort,...
- 1/19/2024
- by Duane Bygre
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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