Deftly written by Richard Curtis and directed...

Deftly written by Richard Curtis and directed by the versatile Mike Newell, the cheerful and witty 1994 hit Four Weddings and a Funeral (ABC Sunday at 8:30 p.m.) breezily follows a small circle of friends through every one of the events that the title promises. Three couples make up the core group, but one of them (Hugh Grant and Charlotte Coleman) are good friends rather than passion’s playmates. At the film’s first wedding, Grant catches a glimpse of an American (Andie MacDowell) and becomes smitten. Grant’s self-confident performance anchors the romantic comedy in good spirits, and the film emerges as a tasty, sophisticated romp.

In the Best of Families: Marriage, Pride and Madness (CBS Sunday at 9 p.m., completed Monday at 9 p.m.) is a 1994 a no-brainer. Featuring a sensationalistic true-crime plot and a collection of skin-deep characters, it comes across like a four-hour dramatic version of “Hard Copy.” The overly long TV movie centers on a Southern blueblood (Kelly McGillis), who plunges off the emotional deep end after her marriage fails.

Renaissance Man (KTLA Friday at 7:30 p.m.) wants to own your tear ducts and, in snatches, this 1994 film does delight. Phony hokum becomes heartfelt hokum. Danny DeVito plays an out-of-work ad exec, a Princeton graduate, who grudgingly takes a job through the local welfare office teaching eight educationally disadvantaged Army recruits at a nearby post.

Helen De Michiel’s Tarantella (KCET Friday at 11 p.m.) is awkward and too often self-conscious, but its heart is in the right place as it explores the lives of Italian American women. The 1996 release gets a big boost through the presence of its star, Mira Sorvino. Although Sorvino’s consistently better than the movie, De Michiel and co-writer Richard Hoblock have provided her with a fine, sensitive, far-ranging role. Sorvino plays Diana, an ambitious young photographer whose life is turned upside down when her widowed mother, to whom she was not close, dies unexpectedly.