By Chris Hastings Art Correspondent For The Mail On Sunday
Published: 00:56 GMT, 10 March 2019 | Updated: 00:58 GMT, 10 March 2019
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It is the much-loved romcom that made Hugh Grant famous – and it’s so fondly remembered that he’ll reprise the role for this week’s Comic Relief.
Grant’s portrayal of unlucky-in-love Charles in Four Weddings And A Funeral in 1994 turned him into an overnight international star and something of a heart-throb.
But just before its release, censors condemned the film as morally bankrupt and an unfunny failure – and branded Grant’s character a ‘callous little s***’.
'Smug and morally bankrupt': Archived papers reveal the views of British Board of Film Classification (BBFC) officials when Four Weddings and a Funeral was originally released
One examiner who assessed the film wrote: ‘As well as being morally bankrupt, this film joins a long line of British comedies that fail even as the credits roll.’
And another wrote: ‘If this new British comedy