Four Weddings And A Funeral 'smug and morally bankrupt', said film chiefs ...

Four Weddings And A Funeral is smug and morally bankrupt - and Hugh Grant plays a 'callous little s***', said film chiefs (before the film went on to make £190million at the box office!) Archive papers reveal damning verdict of British Board of Film Classification 'If this new British comedy were a person, you would not want it to be your friend,' wrote one Four Weddings reviewer at the time of release But film proved a hit with two Oscar nods and became box office success

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

'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

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