On Sunday 09 Dec 2001 8:32 am, Rayna Lamb wrote:
> Hi Kathy,
>
> Been racking my brains after reading your message, I was sure there
> was at least one other movie I knew of which had a disabled
> character that was just `part of the gang' so to speak, without the
> usual (mostly patronisingly icky) focus on the disability - then it
> came to me - `Four Weddings and a Funeral'.  Another one with the
> scrummy Mr Grant in it (I saw it about 10 times when it first came
> out - had a LOT of spare time on my hands in those days *g*), and
> also produced by the same people who did `Bridget Jones' and
> `Notting Hill'. The disabled character was the brother of HG's
> character, who was deaf and used sign. (the brother - not HG, my
> brain is fuzzy so I'm not sure if I'm making sense)  Don't know if
> the actor himself was deaf or if they used a hearing actor who knew
> sign, but the character was naturally incorporated into the film
> and no fuss was made about him.
>
> Rayna
> (btw - Kathy, love the Conrad quote you are using at the end of
> your posts!)

Anything with Richard Curtis involved with the writing has a good
chance of being worth seeing/reading. Apart from the 3 films
mentioned "4 Weds", "Nott", and "Bridget", he wrote all the
Blackadder and Mr Bean stuff.

Cheers

Deri