  four weddings and a funeral is a 1994 british romantic comedy film directed by mike newell. it was the first of several films by screenwriter richard curtis to feature hugh grant. it was made in six weeks and cost under Â£3&nbsp;million, becoming an unexpected success and the highest-grossing british film in cinema history at the time, with worldwide box office in excess of $245.7&nbsp;million, and receiving an academy award nomination for best picture.business data for four weddings and a funeral internet movie database, accessed 15 february 2007.richard curtis. cinema.com. retrieved on 16 august 2011. ==plot== the film follows the adventures of a group of friends through the eyes of charles (hugh grant), a debonair but faux pas-prone briton, who is smitten with carrie (andie macdowell), an american whom charles repeatedly meets at four weddings and at a funeral. the first wedding is that of angus (timothy walker) and laura (sara crowe), at which charles is the best man. charles and his collection of single friends wonder if they will ever get married. at this wedding, charles meets carrie for the first time and spends the night with her. carrie teases him by pretending that, now they have been to bed together, they will also have to get married, to which charles endeavours to respond before realising she is joking. she then goes back home to america, observing that they may have missed an opportunity. the second wedding is that of bernard (david haig) and lydia (sophie thompson), a couple who got together at the previous wedding. charles is happy to discover that carrie is attending the wedding, until she introduces him to her fiancÃ©, sir 
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