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Bridget Jones's Diary

  • 20012001
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  • 1h 37m
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6.8/10
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Colin Firth, Renée Zellweger, and Hugh Grant in Bridget Jones's Diary (2001)
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Bridget Jones is determined to improve herself while she looks for love in a year in which she keeps a personal diary.Bridget Jones is determined to improve herself while she looks for love in a year in which she keeps a personal diary.Bridget Jones is determined to improve herself while she looks for love in a year in which she keeps a personal diary.
IMDb RATING
6.8/10
248K
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POPULARITY
2,598
49
    • Sharon Maguire
    • Helen Fielding(novel)
    • Andrew Davies(screenplay)
    • Richard Curtis(screenplay)
  • Stars
    • Renée Zellweger
    • Colin Firth
    • Hugh Grant
    • Sharon Maguire
    • Helen Fielding(novel)
    • Andrew Davies(screenplay)
    • Richard Curtis(screenplay)
  • Stars
    • Renée Zellweger
    • Colin Firth
    • Hugh Grant
  • See production, box office & company info
    • 633User reviews
    • 105Critic reviews
    • 66Metascore
  • See more at IMDbPro
    • Nominated for 1 Oscar

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    Renée Zellweger
    Renée Zellweger
    • Bridget Jones
    Colin Firth
    Colin Firth
    • Mark Darcy
    Hugh Grant
    Hugh Grant
    • Daniel Cleaver
    Gemma Jones
    Gemma Jones
    • Bridget's Mum
    Celia Imrie
    Celia Imrie
    • Una Alconbury
    James Faulkner
    James Faulkner
    • Uncle Geoffrey
    Jim Broadbent
    Jim Broadbent
    • Bridget's Dad
    Charmian May
    Charmian May
    • Mrs. Darcy
    Paul Brooke
    Paul Brooke
    • Mr. Fitzherbert
    Felicity Montagu
    Felicity Montagu
    • Perpetua
    Shirley Henderson
    Shirley Henderson
    • Jude
    Sally Phillips
    Sally Phillips
    • Shazza
    James Callis
    James Callis
    • Tom
    Charlie Caine
    • Handsome Stranger
    Gareth Marks
    • Simon in Marketing
    John Clegg
    John Clegg
    • Elderly Man
    Salman Rushdie
    Salman Rushdie
    • Salman Rushdie
    Embeth Davidtz
    Embeth Davidtz
    • Natasha
      • Sharon Maguire
      • Helen Fielding(novel) (screenplay)
      • Andrew Davies(screenplay)
      • Richard Curtis(screenplay)
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    • Trivia
      To prepare for the role, Renée Zellweger gained 25 pounds, then worked at a British publishing company for a month. Using an alias and a posh accent, she was apparently not recognized. She also kept a framed picture of her then-boyfriend Jim Carrey on her desk. Her co-workers found the photo odd, but never mentioned it for fear of embarrassing her.
    • Goofs
      (at around 1h 29 mins) Bridget's flat is in Borough, but when Mark leaves it to buy her a new diary, he walks around the corner to the Royal Exchange, which is several miles away on the other side of the Thames.
    • Quotes

      Bridget: Wait a minute... nice boys don't kiss like that.

      Mark Darcy: Oh, yes, they fucking do.

    • Crazy credits
      The European and Australian version of Bridget Jones's Diary does not contain footage of the birthday party during the credits. Instead, it has interviews with Daniel Cleaver (twice), Mark Darcy's parents, and the boss at 'Sit up Britain'.
    • Alternate versions
      The songs that play over the second half of the end credits are different. In the UK the first Robbie Williams song is followed by Dina Carroll singing "Someone Like You", and then Williams again, singing "Not Of This Earth". The US version replaces Carroll with Shelby Lynne singing "Killin' Kind", then concludes with the same Williams track.
    • Connections
      Featured in At the Movies: Blow/All Access/Just Visiting/Along Came a Spider/Just Melvin: Just Evil (2001)
    • Soundtracks
      Magic Moments
      Written by Burt Bacharach and Hal David

      Performed by Perry Como

      Courtesy of RCA Records/BMG Entertainment

    User reviews633

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    8/10
    Corny but cute
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    What really makes this movie stand out from a venerable list of other working girl fantasies is the familiar but one-of-a-kind personality of the irrepressible Bridget Jones. Created by novelist Helen Fielding, who also wrote the script, and brought to life by the talented and zany Renée Zellweger, Bridget Jones is a 32-year-old pleasingly plump London working girl, a "...verbally incontinent spinster who...dresses like her mother" (to quote Colin Firth's character, Mark Darcy). She is also clumsy, the kind of girl who might spill sauce on her blouse, a little overweight, smokes, drinks too much and sometimes says what she thinks without consulting her brain. She is also very good at improvising on the spot, a talent that charms not only the two leading men, Hugh Grant and Colin Firth, who vie for her affection, but also the five o'clock news audience who like her bum and knickers just fine.

    Director Sharon Maguire, in her first outing, combines Brit witticisms, slapstick pratfalls, raunchy, sharp and realistic dialogue, and a blatant but inoffensive sentimentality into a romantic comedy that surely has Nora Ephron and Julia Roberts paying close attention. She keeps us guessing about who will get the girl (and who really deserves the girl) with the usual misdirections and misunderstandings characteristic of the genre. There's a little dead time about half way in, and the uncertainty about whether Bridget wants Hugh Grant or Colin Firth is milked a bit overmuch, otherwise this is nicely paced entertainment sure to chase away a blue afternoon.

    Hugh Grant and Colin Firth are both very good, and Gemma Jones as Bridget's mother is a charming, dotty sight to see. Bridget's friends are funny as a kind of foil to the tired glamor of Yank TV's "Friends." And there's a darling "home movie" sequence during the closing credits purporting to recall Bridget at four and Mark Darcy at eight, that retrospectively and adorably frames the movie.

    Should a CHICK FLICK ALERT be declared here? No doubt, but thanks to a warm, bubbly, funny and decidedly unprudish and unaffected (and I must say, somewhat daring) performance by Zellweger, we'll ignore it because we "like her just the way she is."
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    • Release date
      • April 13, 2001 (United States)
      • United Kingdom
      • France
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      • Miramax
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    • Filming locations
      • Bedale Street, Southwark, London, England, UK
    • Production companies
      • Miramax
      • Universal Pictures
      • StudioCanal
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    • 1 hour 37 minutes
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