Who wrote the screenplay for the 1994 romantic comedy Four Weddings and a Funeral?

Richard Curtis wrote the screenplay for Four Weddings and a Funeral.

The 1994 British romantic comedy follows Charles, played by Hugh Grant, and his friends as they attend four weddings and a funeral. Across those events, Charles repeatedly encounters Carrie, an American played by Andie MacDowell. Curtis’s screenplay combines awkward social situations, dry dialogue, and a gradual romance rather than focusing on a single courtship from the beginning.

Mike Newell directed the film, while Curtis received an Academy Award nomination for Best Original Screenplay. Four Weddings and a Funeral was a major international success and helped establish Grant as a leading romantic-comedy actor. Curtis later wrote and directed Love Actually and wrote other successful British romantic comedies, including Notting Hill. A common mix-up is attributing the film’s screenplay to Nora Ephron, an American writer associated with films such as Sleepless in Seattle and You’ve Got Mail.