Four Weddings and a Funeral (1994)

‘Fuck-a-doodle-do!’
Director: Mike Newell
Cast: Hugh Grant, Andie MacDowell
Defining moment: It could be argued that Hugh Grant’s oh-so-awkward South Bank confession of love paved the way for the current cultural takeover by the British aristocracy.
For a film that celebrates English reserve and self-deprecation, it seems somehow wrong that 'Four Weddings... ' garnered such huge international success. And yet this modestly budgeted British ensemble comedy was a massive hit, thanks to a sparkling script by Richard Curtis and winning performances by its cast of wedding-hopping well-to-do Londoners, not least Hugh Grant whose floppy charm and even floppier hair turned him into one of the decade’s leading romantic men. Edward Lawrenson