Four Weddings and a Funeral
At 32, Grant claimed to be on the brink of giving up the acting profession but was surprised by the script of "Four Weddings and a Funeral" (1994). "If you read as many bad scripts as I did, you'd know how grateful you are when you come across one where the guy actually is funny," he later recalled. Released in 1994 with Grant as the protagonist, "Four Weddings and a Funeral" became the highest-grossing British film to date with a worldwide box office in excess of $244 million, making him an overnight international star. His entry in "The Trouble with Men: Masculinities in European and Hollywood Cinema" states: