Four marriages and a burial ( Four Weddings and has Funeral ) is a British film of Mike Newell left in 1994.

Synopsis

The film tells the adventures of a group of friends, through the eyes of Charles (Hugh Grant) who is obnubilated by Carrie (Andie MacDowell), American very attracting that it meets regularly at the time of marriages and with a burial.

The first marriage is that of Angus (Timothy Walker) and Laura (Sarah Crowe). Charles and his group of friends are persuaded that they will never marry themselves. This marriage, Charles meets Carrie for the first time, and spends the night with it. However, she sees that as simple a one night adventure, nothing more.

The second marriage is that of Bernard (David Haig), and of Lydia (Sophie Thompson), a couple which was formed at the time of the preceding marriage. This sequence puts in scene Rowan Atkinson in the role of an inexperienced priest. The reception of the evening is not part of pleasure for Charles, who finds itself with a table with several of his ex-small friends, then which falls nez-à-nez with Henriette (called " Mug of Cane" by his/her friends), with whom it had maintained a complicated relation. The disastrous evening continues when he learns that Carrie became engaged to a Scottish politicking rich person, Hamish.

For the period which follows, Charles meets Carrie whereas it is in the search of one wedding gift to the height of its financial means, and ends up helping it to choose her dress of marriage. Carrie also astonishes it by drawing up a list to him by about thirty partners with which it had relations. He will acknowledge to him later that if its marriage is unfruitful, he would like to have a relation followed with her but she declines politely the suggestion.

The third marriage is that of Carrie and Hamish in a Scottish castle. Charles assists to with it, depressed enough. With the reception, his/her friend Fiona (Kristin Scott Thomas) acknowledges to him that she always liked it, but Charles does not answer this love. In the same evening, a friend of Charles, Gareth (Simon Callow) dies brutally of an cardiac arrest.

The burial is that of Gareth. With the burial Mathew (John Hannah in one of its first roles), the poem Funeral Blues recites writes by WH Auden. One realizes whereas Matthew and Gareth formed a couple, more than of simple friends. Charles and Tom (James Fleet) have a discussion on the nature of the true love.

The fourth marriage is that of Charles, who decided in cause of despair to marry Henriette. However, with this marriage, it meets Carrie which separated from her husband. During the ceremony, when the vicar asks whether somebody knows a prevention with the marriage, David (David Bower), the young dumb brother of Charles uses the sign language to announce that Charles does not love Henriette. This one gives a punch to Charles and the marriage is brutally stopped.

At the end, Carrie returns visit to Charles, who recovers from the disaster, to excuse his presence. Charles acknowledges that it finally realized that the person with whom it wanted to pass her life was not the woman whom it was on the point of marrying. He does not want to marry whole, but he wants that Carrie is his/her partner. The couple decides whereas he will never marry.

The end of film comprises an assembly photographs informing us about the future of the other characters of film. All are shown at the day of their marriage, except Fiona, which one sees at the sides of Prince Charles. The merry not-husbands Charles and Carrie are shown with their little boy.

Data sheet

  • Title: Four marriages and a burial
  • original Title: Four Weddings and has Funeral
  • Réalisation: Mike Newell
  • Scenario: Richard Curtis
  • Original music: Richard Rodney Bennett
  • Country of origin: the United Kingdom
  • Comings out date: March 9th 1994 (the United States), April 27th 1994 (France)
  • Lasted: 117 minutes
  • Kind: Comedy

Distribution

Characters

  • Charles : Boy romantic, reserved (it at least takes him three weeks to be declared), incompetent to engage with a girl, always late and distracted (best man, it succeeds in forgetting alliances of married…), it falls passionately in love with Carrie and will say not to Henriette the day of her marriage. It will have a child of Carrie, will live with it but will not marry it.
  • Carrie : Its true first name is Carolyn. American, journalist with Vogue, it slept with 33 men and in is proud. Female version of Charles (moreover Carrie and Charles are the female one and the masculine of the same first name), it will marry with the Hamish rich person but its marriage will be a fiasco.
  • Scarlett : little sister and joint tenant of Charles, this shopgirl does not manage to interest the men. At the time of the marriage of Carrie, it will meet a colossus texan, Chester, which will become her husband.
  • Tom : millionaire, this nice fellow very simple is the 7th fortune of England. Perfectly conscious of being taken for an imbecile, he only hopes to find one girl who would like of him. At the time of the marriage missed by Charles, it will have the love at first sight (and reciprocally) for Deirdre, a remote cousin.
  • Fiona : sister of the precedent, it cynical and is always equipped with black. Indeed, it is secretly and pronfondément in love with Charles. She will marry at the end of film with… Prince Charles!
  • David : brother of Charles, deaf-mute, he is the confidant of this last. It is him which disadvises in Charles marrying " Mug of Cane". He will arouse the interest of pretty Serena which will go until learning the sign language to approach it and to allure it. He will marry it.
  • Gareth : large jovial Scot, drink amateur and inventor of very disputed " duck with the banane" , he lives with Matthiew and overflows of love of life and humor. He will succumb of an heart attack at the time of the marriage of Carrie whereas he had just courted, obviously successfully, a guest American.
  • Matthiew : discrete boy, one will learn at the time of the burial of Gareth that they were " more than mariés". He will find a new friend at the time when all the other friends convolent.
  • Henriette " Mug of cane" : former boyfriend of Charles, it attracted herself the hatred of Fiona which affublée it of this grotesque nickname. At the time of its marriage with Charles, this last will say " non" in front of the furnace bridge and will receive a hard punch. Henriette with the reputation, not really usurped, to be completely nut…

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