Midweek Mention... Four Weddings and a Funeral

Four Weddings

Sidey: Four weddings and just the one funeral.

Dan: Yeah.

I hadn't

seen this in a time,

Sidey: I hadn't seen this.

Dan: You've never seen

Sidey: I have now.

Dan: Well,

Cris: you were, you were groaning

Dan: when I mentioned this. You

Cris: were Oh, like,

Dan: as if this was gonna be absolute torture.

The worst thing you've

Cris: ever seen.

Reegs: you not vibe with Richard Curtis?

Sidey: No, it's the sort of floppy head, sort of

doofus,

character. Well,

Reegs: Well, and it came out absolutely full form in this one as well.

Sidey: Yeah, this is like the archetype, prototype and it's also got that song

Cris: Yeah, but only right

Dan: the end with

Cris: credits.

Sidey: Yeah. When It came. Oh

this fucking shot.

Cris: yeah,

Dan: you heard it a million times. Every played every day when this film came out and it stayed in the wet, wet wets lovers all around.

Reegs: oh yeah. That was the

Dan: Yeah. It was

Sidey: Marty Pello,

Reegs: I feel it in my

Cris: fingers.

Sidey: I did know that it starts off with just a load of swearing. 'cause the alarm clocks we see,

Cris: fuck

Sidey: the characters.

Alarms, clocks go up, they get up [00:01:00] and go. they're getting dressed.

these different

apart from Hug Grant who? snoozes and then he wakes up and fuck it goes through to his flatmate. Fuck. And they just, fuck.

bug, bug, bug goes like going down the road in the, mini.

Dan: Good old English swearing. It's bugger and fuck. And it was

Cris: directed by Mike Newell. Yeah,

Sidey: After he played for Blackburn,

Cris: Yeah. This is what I was thinking.

Dan: He had a good career at Blackburn and then obviously he turned his,

Cris: his hand brother

Sidey: of Roderick. Of course,

Dan: course, of course. And

it was written by Richard Curtis, which is the reason I wanted to see this film. It come, I was watching awards

like.

Ceremonies and people accepting

Cris: speeches and things on YouTube, rabbit hole, whatever. And he came

Dan: on and he

Cris: talked

Dan: he was introduced by huge Grant who said he's an absolute asshole, this guy. And I can't believe he was the only one who didn't want me to

Cris: get

Dan: job when Four Weddings. He said, you know, the, the director loved me, the producers

Cris: loved me.

Dan: The, the money men liked me.

But.[00:02:00]

Cris: The writer was an absolute ars asshole, and

Dan: it's he who we're welcoming today and

Cris: greeting.

Dan: And then he gave a speech and it was, he did

Cris: like tons of work for Red Nose Day and thing.

Dan: And I thought, oh, well, you know, it's

Cris: worth seeing four weddings again.

Dan: And, and

Cris: and so when you groaned and said. I thought you'd seen this and was already hating on it. Okay, so

Sidey: I probably seen clips of it and various bits and bobs, but it's sort of done out in, in chapters based on the wedding invites and stuff, isn't it?

So The first one. It's God, I can't even remember whose wedding it is. The first one.

anyway,

There is a wedding.

Cris: there is, lemme go

Dan: my notes.

Sidey: He's the best man at it and it's this, we get the whole saga of him getting there 'cause he is late and they have to bomb it down. The motorway in their shitty old mini.

They get there, it gets to the front where the guys are just, it's all just about to happen. I said, sorry I'm late. And he's like, don't worry about it. You know, as long as you didn't forget the rings. And he's like, fuck

Cris: fuck an [00:03:00] Angus and Laura. That's

Dan: Yeah. And, and so he has forgotten the rings and he's

Cris: kind of mouthing to the congregation in behind

Dan: Ring as their singing

you know, a classic England churchy theme song.

Cris: I

Sidey: think it was this

Reegs: one. Him.

Sidey: even sing. Jerusalem in

Dan: it. Yeah. At

Sidey: At one point they sing Jerusalem I mean, it couldn't be getting more fucking

Reegs: Quaint.

Cris: Yeah, no, absolutely. And his, his flatmate

Dan: Scarlet, who is,

Cris: you know, she's practically got

Dan: pineapples in her head and

Cris: Yeah.

Sidey: like the Phoebe Buffet, you know,

Reegs: Manny

Sidey: proxy.

Cris: Yeah. So she's

Dan: got this kind of huge plastic

Sidey: Like costume jewelry,

Cris: costume jewelry. And somebody else has got like a, it's like a deaf

Sidey: hell's Angel like scuffing.

Dan: they're the two

Cris: rings that get

Dan: on the fingers

Cris: Of Angus and Laura. But they all have a, a great day. And there's lots of witty conversation in between.

Well,

Sidey: Well, we get to meet them, you know, we get to meet all the, all the group. We've got the, the gay couple Simon Callow and John Hannah's. lot. Yeah. [00:04:00] And we see that Simon Callow's, like the. Like the sort of scholar of the group, but he's also, he likes to fuck around and cause me his chief and he's, but he is obviously very,

Reegs: he likes, he likes a few drugs as well, doesn't he?

Sidey: Just, just a lot of smoking and drinking.

Dan: Yeah. I mean, you see

Cris: him frying up a huge, greasy breakfast right

Sidey: bit foreshadowing.

Reegs: Heart attack basically.

Cris: Yeah. He's

assu of the group really, isn't he? Yeah. He just like zero fucks. He's just laughs at all the inappropriate jokes and everything. Makes

Sidey: You've got Kristen Scott Thomas's character. She's like a bit bitchy. She's super glamorous and her brother is a moron. He's like the nice but dim sort of character. She slags off the bride as She's walking down the aisle. Someone said, Oh, she looks so lovely. She's like, don't be stupid. She looks like a

Dan: Are you fucking blind? Yeah.

Cris: All the kind of, all the kind of things that do actually get said at weddings and

They're

Dan: you know, they're, they're having, they're having a laugh. They, you can see they're a tight knit bunch who none of them are married as well. So they find it very easy to poke fun at those that are getting married and making that commitment

do,

Cris: it. [00:05:00]

Sidey: The wedding does happen and we get the guy with the mustache who you've seen in other things.

Dan: Yeah.

Sidey: He hits off with, Is it Lydia?

Cris: Yeah. Bernard and Lydia.

Sidey: and also Hugh Grant. He's gonna meet Andy McDowell.

Cris: Yeah. Because Lydia is,

Dan: is the bridesmaid. And towards the end

Sidey: she's, she's getting annoyed 'cause she hasn't had an

Cris: for a second.

Oh, I can't believe that. And he goes, well,

Dan: I.

Cris: bad. Don't be

ridiculous. next time you

Dan: pans down to them, they're snogging. And they're, they're just made

Cris: for each other. Yeah. It,

Dan: seems. But that will be the next wedding,

Cris: but yeah, the thunderbolt is hit. Um, Charles

Sidey: Carrie.

Dan: Yeah. He's seen this amazing beautiful American lady

Reegs: I remember her looking so elegant. Yeah. In

Sidey: this it compliments her hat

Reegs: and like she's got that real angular beauty.

Cris: Yeah, she is, she's stunning.

Dan: she

looks really hot and

Reegs: and she's a bit of loof as well, isn't she?

Dan: A little bit but witty with him. She [00:06:00] takes him. Everybody likes her.

Cris: you know,

Sidey: He's told though that she only likes like a certain type of bloke, like a, a rich man or an, or a powerful important man or something like that. Yeah. So he is not, oh, a bit like that. He does his best man's speech where he sort of

bumble his way through and it's sort of quite

They're all laughing. And then they do actually hit it off.

He, he, she's staying at the pub. He decides to leave and then goes back.

Cris: It is funny when he sits down and he goes, oh, hi, I am Charles. And the guy next

Dan: to him goes, don't be ridiculous. Charles died years ago. And he goes, I'm a

Cris: different Charles. And he goes,

brother,

Sidey: Okay,

Dan: he's in trouble. That's, that's who he sat next to now for the rest of the evening and everything. and he has a few we go to the, so he

Cris: has this, ends up going back to a party, but getting

Dan: out of the car before getting to the party

Cris: because, Carrie

Dan: is staying at the same hotel as as he was. And he goes back there and manages to [00:07:00] steal her away from a weirdo who's getting absolutely leathered in the.

Cris: in the room downstairs on whiskey, doesn't he?

And,

Sidey: have snack.

Dan: they, have Well, you know, you, you see him shoot. First of all, he's on top of her, then she's on top of him. That, no, you don't see

Cris: any of

Dan: those kind

Sidey: It's very taly

Dan: It's tastefully done. There's ducks, I think in or

Cris: birds flying.

Sidey: They have a sort of conversation, but he doesn't tell because he's love that straight away.

Yeah. He's just totally He doesn't have the courage to tell. her. It's almost seems a bit, maybe a bit too much. But she's American, and so she's gonna leave unless you do something and he doesn't.

Dan: He doesn't. No,

Reegs: he just lets her

Cris: And it isn't until three months later the wedding of Bernard and Lydia, these

Sidey: they rushed this, through,

Dan: Yeah,

Cris: mean in

Reegs: months. So they just got together at the previous one and then they get married three months.

Good for the plot though.

Dan: Good. Good for the plot. And they're, they're both kind of

Sidey: fuck. Bugger, bugger. They're late again. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

It's

Reegs: Is this where he's living with? 'cause there's two Hughes in this one, isn't he? He, 'cause he lives with Hugh

Sidey: No, he lives with Scarlet.

Reegs: Got it. Oh, right. But

Hugh Bonneville is in this

Cris: he [00:08:00] is in this, yeah. There's, it's a bit of who, who

Reegs: with him, does he?

Cris: Don't think so. No. In this no. Everybody's, everybody's

Dan: quite

you know,

Sidey: he gets punched obviously at the end. But no, this one, the the wedding's going on and it's much, you know, much the same, you know, wedding, blah, blah, blah.

Until he sees, fuck me, Carrie's here again.

Yeah.

And he's immediately like, oh, he says to his friends, this is great.

Dan: Brilliant. Hold this. Don't go back to America. Gets her drinks and everything. And she introduced him to Hamish, her fiance.

Reegs: Her fiance. Oh

Sidey: Ouch.

Dan: Yeah. Ouch. Town. He's just like Resfall. He can't believe it. He's, he's everybody's, you know, he's questioning his life choices now.

Everybody's getting married. What am I doing? There's a, a

Cris: ex-girlfriend.

Sidey: The one they call Duck

Dan: Yeah. Who's,

Sidey: She's just a real brat.

She's

Cris: real fucking, Yeah. She's still

in love with him and

Dan: he's just

Cris: trying to, move her on

and

Reegs: She went on to be in teachers, didn't she? The,

Dan: I think she did, yeah.

Cris: Or But they're yeah, they [00:09:00] kind of just balls up their, their moments again,

Dan: although

Cris: he does end up

Dan: going, Hamish has

Cris: to leave. There's one scene and

Sidey: significantly older than her as well.

Cris: Yeah, he's getting a bit of grief, isn't he?

He just can't, he seems to, he's got caught saying duck faced about the girlfriend and she's gone

Dan: off the ex-girlfriend, she's gone off in tears.

His friends are all just

Cris: and having a laugh, and he's not in

Dan: mood, so he goes into a room to get away from it all and he looks through the window and he sees. Carrie and Hamish

Cris: leaving early.

Dan: And then the wedding

Cris: couple come in

Dan: and they start fucking on the bed. And

Cris: he, he does, he doesn't, he gets stuck in the room and he's, he's in like a cupboard. And he waits until they're

Reegs: finished.

Dan: It's

Cris: like, and then they go, should

Dan: do it once more again? Like, you

Cris: know? And he's like, I can't do it.

Dan: he

Cris: just

Dan: out

Cris: of the cupboard, like, with a pen. I found it. He got, I found it. And they're like, what the fuck? Yeah. And then actually

Dan: Carrie has come back.

She's just dropped Hamish to the airport and she's come back and they [00:10:00] go off again for

Cris: well

Sidey: she cheats on our

Cris: the second, the second one nightstand.

Yeah.

Sidey: She invites him up for a drink and he says, oh, I dunno. She goes, it's just a drink. You know? I, I think I can resist you You're not that good looking. And then it was like in the morning and they've obviously fucked. Yeah. You like you fucking cheat on your fiance you'll, you'll toe rag. Yeah.

Cris: Yeah.

Sidey: The next wedding.

Cris: Is her own,

isn't it?

Sidey: gonna be Carrie and Hamish. Yeah.

Reegs: yeah.

Dan: As

Cris: they go through in this,

Dan: he's kind of shaking all their hands and Hamish just doesn't shake his hand at all, does he? He just kind of blanks him and he's obviously not, you know, he's, he's aware Yeah.

That that's a, an old flame or who the fucks him get

Cris: invited

Dan: guy. But that he's, he's super rich. Hamish,

Cris: he's got this huge estate and everything,

Sidey: I think they're not, say he's an MP or something.

Cris: Yeah, he's, he's super, yeah. He's powerful

Dan: and rich and, he's got everything going for him apart from his age and, but he's got this trophy wife now who's very intelligent and beautiful.

Reegs: Is she an artist or something

Dan: Uh, she works for Vogue Magazine. That's right.

Cris: Yeah, [00:11:00] she's,

Sidey: Gareth

Simon. Ow he's having a great time in particular at this wedding 'cause he's just going around like taking the

piss out all the angst without them realizing that he's taking the piss outta them. Okay. Stood clever for them. And he is really enjoying it. then we get to the, the speeches and unusually at this one.

Carrie stands up to make a speech and she does that 'cause her father has died. Many years ago. And so she wants to make a speech, look like he might, might have made. And she talks about, you know, thanks for staying even though there's all these Yanks here. And the camera then quite fixes on Hugh Grant Charlie's reaction to it.

But next to him as well. You've also got Gareth. He's smoking I think, and he is just there

and he's sort of fidgeting around a bit, but really you kind of, most of the time you're just watching. Hugh Grant just being like dead miserable 'cause the bird that he loves, has just got married and then all of a sudden no, actually she finishes her speech and Hamish gets up to talk and then it goes quiet and Gareth collapses and knocks a big silver

platter over.

and he says, oh, is there some some rockus at the back there? [00:12:00] And the rest of him, it's all kind of goes a bit slow motion, where they, they drag him into the next room and they, they find a doctor there. But they

sort of

Cris: pronounce it

Sidey: lay his head down. and You realize he has died and he has to go through the the congregation then to grab his other half.

And explain to him like what's the middle of the wedding, that it's all gone Fucking Pete to, Yeah.

Reegs: dear.

Dan: We, we have missed a couple of the wedding best man speeches before that for

Cris: Bernard and Lydia. That was fun. Wasn't

Dan: Goes

Cris: Because he says oh, there was It

was lovely when

Dan: he, Bernard, finally married Lydia because all his other such girlfriends were

Cris: dogs, many of whom I see here today.

And it is lovely that, you know, so he is digging 'em out. He's just clueless. The, the guy he's super rich though. He is like the eighth, richest person. No, I think we might be seven for eight. You know, he's complete. Complete off really?

Reegs: Have we had the Rowan Atkinson bit as

Sidey: he's the second, he's the

second wedding. He's the second wedding

Cris: wedding priest.

Friend of the

Sidey: it all up. Yeah.

Dan: The Holy Goat.

Reegs: Does all his malapropisms,

doesn't

Cris: it? yeah.

But yeah, this is

is

Dan: for the funeral,

Cris: which is quite [00:13:00] emotional,

Dan: as he goes

Cris: through.

and

Matthew, few words

Dan: very good friend and everything, because it's all.

back

Cris: in the day where.

completely out

Dan: to everyone apart from close friends and things, and, and for all intents and purposes they say, look,

you know, they

Cris: were married. Those two

Dan: we said that, you know, none

of us got married. But

Cris: those

Dan: really were. And

Reegs: yeah, well before gay marriage was a

Cris: Yeah.

Dan: And, and they, you know, it is quite a, quite a sad and

Cris: poignant.

Sidey: He says, oh, I, I phoned around and a few to find out what what people remembered of him. And A lot of people said fat. Yeah.

Dan: Yeah,

Cris: fat.

Sidey: Rude. But a lot of people phoned me to tell me what they thought and you know, it's quite touching and he reads, some,

some poetry.

Yeah.

Everyone's very sad.

and at this point I was picking up the vibe. I dunno if it had been been, I was just oblivious. But Fiona, Kristen, Scotch Thomas. It became obvious to me now [00:14:00] that she had a thing for Charlie.

Cris: Yeah. And

Dan: she says as, as kind of time's running out and these kind, you know, it's always been you, I've always loved you. It's unrequited love that he's feeling in some way, shape or form with Carrie, that she's gone

Cris: off with someone else and they're,

Dan: they're both feeling that angst of love,

Cris: I guess.

Sidey: because she comes to the funeral.

Cris: Yeah.

Sidey: Yeah. Carrie. So they,

Dan: just a month after her. Wedding.

Cris: But yeah it's a few months later.

It's

Dan: Tom

meets a girl, doesn't he?

Cris: Charles and Henrietta's wedding,

that wedding they go on because they, I think it is Charles getting married then, isn't

the one that Grant. He finally, you see him walking down the aisle, he's realized.

Dan: I've got,

Cris: And he's gone back to duck face. He's gone back

Dan: HEN

Cris: And they're getting married.

Sidey: well yeah, 'cause you, you get the shot of the invite as in like this is chapter Yeah. Five, or whatever. And it says Charles and, and then the [00:15:00] flowers are covering.

Cris: Yeah, that's right.

Sidey: girl's name you dunno who it is. And then it's obviously him getting married and they still, they the four, of the, his

A group

of friends, they're on a bench and they're having a chat but none of them mentioned the name.

It's really keeping you in suspense. Who's it gonna be?

Cris: But

Reegs: realistically you're thinking who it

Sidey: well, it can't be Carrie. No.

Reegs: make any

Dan: Just think, well, yeah.

Cris: is it? Have,

Reegs: if we had, we haven't had the, in the words of David Carradine in the Rain, is that right at the

Dan: Right In

Sidey: no. But he has told her that he loved her. Yeah. He's, I

Reegs: he's already

Sidey: before she's

Reegs: q granted his way through

Cris: But when

Sidey: she's engaged, he has said to her, then he says in the words Of

Reegs: David Garine, all that.

Yeah.

Dan: Yeah. Yeah.

Sidey: so she knows. And then she's, later on, she says, it was nice to hear that. And he's like, oh, okay.

But yeah, he's, he's sort of uming and ing Well, no, he's not. He's, he's dead happy. 'cause he's sort of want, he's tired of, he's actually explicitly said he is tired of being, you know, a guest at the wedding. He wants to get married and sort of move on with his life.

Then we see the flowers, and then the flowers get put on the girl's head and it's dark [00:16:00] face.

Yeah. And she's being a megabit to everyone.

Dan: Yeah.

Reegs: and this is clearly not a good idea, right?

Cris: It's, well, he's, he's you know, a little bit nervous

Dan: and when Carrie turns up and says, actually, she's separated for the last few months. He says, why didn't

you

let me know? You know, why didn't you say anything?

And she was like, well, you know, I just was in a bad place. I wanted to get myself sorted.

wanted to

come now and

Cris: you all the best,

Sidey: the best idea is to, turn on your wedding,

Cris: on your wedding day.

Dan: And, and so yeah, he's

Cris: just

bugger, bugger, bugger b you know, in the back room.

Sidey: He's having serious doubts now, and he's, he's got John Hanna there.

He's saying, well,

are you gonna do this or not? Because as long as you, you know, you marry the person that. You love with your whole heart? I think he says. Yeah.

Cris: Yeah. And his brother, deaf. Yeah.

Dan: He's the one that

Cris: ends

Reegs: he makes quite racy comments, doesn't he?

That

Sidey: he

says about

Reegs: else can understand.

Cris: Yeah. Yeah.

Sidey: He

is like, it's very hilly

Reegs: Yeah, that's,

Dan: and it,

Cris: it,

Dan: he [00:17:00] kind of knocks on the,

Cris: on the door or the

Dan: pew

Cris: when asked is any man

Sidey: well, he says, he says, behind the scenes, he says, there's, there's three, three ways you could play.

this. He says, first of all you just go through with it. Yeah. If you love her, second of all, you go out there and say, sorry folks, this isn't happening.

Yeah. And he go, and then he comes like, what's the third one? He goes, I can't think of the third.

But then when he knocks on the, he, he, he goes, I have thought of the third one. He is doing it all through sign.

And he's, and Hugh Grant's, then translating what he's saying.

Cris: think the groom is not in love with the bride and.

Reegs: Oh yeah, he

Dan: And

Cris: like this, anyway it,

Dan: it,

it results

Cris: in a punch in the face for Hugh Grant by the,

Sidey: well, there's a sort of, there's a joke that's been set up earlier. 'cause when he is seeing Carrie, she says, all you gotta do is just say, I do. When someone asks you any questions,

Cris: is it true? Do you not? Do you love someone else, do you?

Dan: he goes, I do.

Cris: And then he gets

Sidey: dark face, comes in with a great big right cross and chins [00:18:00] him.

Cris: He gets floored and takes it. He's got

Dan: big bruise under the eye. He's feeling terrible. It's pissing down with rain. He's in the flat back at his house with his friends who are saying, yeah, well you should feel terrible.

His brother's saying,

Cris: I feel terrible. And he says,

Dan: well, yeah, everyone is blaming you actually. 'cause he can't hear anything like, you know.

Cris: So,

Dan: it, there's,

Cris: there's still a few laughs, but he's, you can see

Dan: in his face.

Cris: that's just a whole, he said, poor,

Dan: I can't believe I've done

Cris: it to her. Like literally I've

Dan: made her walk through the, down the

Reegs: Yeah.

Cris: Yeah.

Dan: in front of all her

Sidey: Yeah. But even walking down the aisle, she's a bitch to her dad. She's like,

eh, don't

Cris: you've done that so tight. You figured, fuck,

Dan: you know, he's,

Cris: he's lucky

Sidey: it's dodged bullet there, but the doorbell rings and he thinks it's gonna be her duck face. So he goes like, look, I've got a face of music here. Or maybe her dad or something, you know, so he goes out I know it's, it's Carrie and McDowell.

Fucking soaked through 'cause it's pissing down.

Cris: Some guy with a hose over there. Yeah.

Sidey: they, they have their, their moment and he Does all his bumbling, sort of very posh.

Cris: We could,

you promise not to marry me if we could spend a [00:19:00] long time together

Dan: not being married and blah, blah, blah,

Sidey: And then they're struck by lightning and killed.

Cris: Yeah.

And it goes through photographs of all the weddings to come and the

Sidey: first one I think is duck face is married straight away to someone

Dan: She's straight away

Cris: married to

someone else. I told

Sidey: I think

Cris: Scarlet's married to an American that she met who's like, just six foot eight

Reegs: eight. She was the quirky one,

Cris: Yeah, she was the quirky one is a happy ending all way around.

Sidey: their

Cris: Nervous all around.

Sidey: got a kid.

Cris: Yes.

Reegs: Who? Andy McDowell. And all right.

Cris: the

Dan: So they've all settled

Reegs: down, but

have they got married?

Sidey: It doesn't say,

Dan: doesn't

Reegs: say so. We'll

Sidey: I assume so, but

Cris: maybe. all maybe. Yeah.

Sidey: And weddings

Dan: too.

Sidey: John Hannah's character had, had,

Cris: Yeah. He's found someone else as role. Also

Reegs: found love

Sidey: Yeah.

Cris: having laughs.

So,

You know, it's, for me, it held up. I watched this first time around. I think the writing's brilliant. I think the characters,

Dan: I can see why it's so popular.

Then

Cris: I can see why it's

Reegs: it was a sensation as well, isn't it?

I went to the

Sidey: It was, it was The highest [00:20:00] grossing British film ever.

Cris: Yeah,

Reegs: what it was or is

Sidey: was, I dunno what's overtaken it, but it was, yeah,

Reegs: it was enormous. I, I saw it at the cinema. It had a massive impact in America, didn't

it?

Sidey: So that, this is my. Still my bug bear with it.

Not, it's not really a bug bear, but this is what I think Americans think English people are like.

Reegs: Yeah.

Cris: Yeah. And

No.

Reegs: They're much more likely to be sort of fat skinheads painting the George Cross over a kebab shop.

But,

Sidey: Yeah.

Dan: But, but not in this film. It

was very typically British how we would like to be portrayed by the American George. The Americans like to see us portrayed anyway. And Hugh Grant duds that fantastically, he's played on it for a career. And he's got better and better for me. Hugh Grant, I mean he's,

Sidey: I think he gives zero facts these

Cris: Yeah. I think

Reegs: his career has been on such an interesting trajectory. We'll probably get into it when we talk our top five Hughes,

Sidey: but was it the premier of this that he turned up with Elizabeth [00:21:00] Hurley and she had the

Cris: Yeah,

Sidey: the safety pin dress. Is that the one? Yeah.

And then not, not long after that.

He fucked

Reegs: Divine Brown. was,

Sidey: From Divine Brown. in The back of a car or something.

Reegs: and then the Levinson inquiry and all sorts of stuff. Yeah. We can probably, we'll talk about it in our top five Hughes. No

Dan: Yeah. But.

Cris: but

Dan: Really enjoyed it. What, what did you

Cris: think

Dan: is the

Cris: first time of it? I

Sidey: No, I did, I did, enjoy It Yeah,

Reegs: good,

writing.

And good acting is, you know, even if I, I,

Cris: I, I

Reegs: went less down. Like I didn't love all of the Richard Curtis

Sidey: stuff. No, I don't.

Reegs: It like was diminishing returns for me. But this was

Sidey: really

What's that Christmas one? Everyone loves

Reegs: love. Actually

Sidey: Fuck that.

Reegs: that one's terrible, I think. But people really love it.

Dan: They still, yeah, it still just gets people in the fields, but not quite like your first time.

Sidey: This is just like a slice of posh English people. It's just not really real, but it's well acted and well written and it's funny

Dan: and it's got some good lines. Yeah. Check out if You

Cris: strong recommended.

Reegs: how many weddings were there in

it?

Cris: Four.

Sidey: and one funeral.

What do you call him, [00:22:00] The writer,

Cris: Richie?

Sidey: Yeah, he

Dan: he did

Cris: loads of stuff.

Sidey: got the idea for it. 'cause he worked out that he'd been to 65 weddings in an 11 year period.

That would've been a longer film. 65 weddings.

Yeah.

And a dozen funerals. Yeah. Yeah. But I I agree with you, dad. It's a strong Recommend.