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The budget for the film was so small that the Scottish wedding wasn't filmed in Scotland, and the extras had to bring their own suits to the weddings.
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A scene where Carrie lifts the veil of the dress she is trying on and sees Charles was cut after previews, as this practice is considered unlucky.
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As of 1999 it is the highest-grossing British film in cinema history with worldwide box office in excess of $260 million.
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In a deleted scene we find out that Charles, Matthew and Fiona were at university together, Gareth was a lecturer until he released a paper entitled "King Lear: Grandpa goes gaga" and Scarlett was found under Charles' kitchen table after a party and has lived there ever since.
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Before composing his score, composer Richard Rodney Bennett fell asleep in the middle of his first viewing of the film.
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Jeanne Tripplehorn was originally slated to play Carrie, but had to back out for personal reasons, following the sudden death of her mother. Andie MacDowell was cast two weeks before shooting began.
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Inspiration for the film came when writer Richard Curtis was flipping through some old diaries and realized that he had been to 72 weddings in 10 years.
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Hugh Grant had to learn British Sign Language for his scenes with his deaf brother, played by David Bower, who is deaf in real life.
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The first British film to win a Cesar - the French equivalent of the Oscar. It won for Best Foreign Film and Best Original Screenplay.
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Andie MacDowell waived a fee for appearing in the film, taking percentage points instead. This netted her an eventual $2 million, compared with Hugh Grant's salary of $100,000.
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Originally scheduled to be filmed one or two years earlier, but was held back. When it finally got the green light, PolyGram cut the original budget of eight million dollars to six million.
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Melanie Griffith and Brooke Shields were each offered the role of Carrie, but both turned down the part.
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When star Hugh Grant (and then partner Elizabeth Hurley) showed up at the London premiere of this movie, Hurley's seductive Gianni Versace outfit drew most of the media attention away from Grant, much to his obvious chagrin.
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For his audition, Hugh Grant played a tape of when he was best man at his brother's wedding.
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A Chinese-subtitled version of the film labeled Rowan Atkinson's character as Mr. Bean, though the characters are different from each other.
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