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. Version) 2.2 2001 VHS (Canadian Version) 2.3 2001 DVD 2.4 2001 DVD Menu 2.5 2004 DVD - Collector's Series 2.6 2004 DVD Menu - Collector's Series 3 Advertised on: Timeline Supplements 2001 VHS (U.S. ![]() 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. Bridget Jones's Diary (film)/Home media < Bridget Jones's Diary (film) View src Contents 1 Timeline 2 Supplements 2.1 2001 VHS (U.S. Bridget Jones Mark Darcy Jack Qwant Daniel Cleaver Mr Fitzherbert Antagonist Villains Cast. Bridget Joness Diary Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason Bridget Joness Baby Characters. Hugh Grant and Colin Firth are both very good, and Gemma Jones as Bridget's mother is a charming, dotty sight to see. Bridget Joness Diary (Book) Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason (Book) Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy (Book) Movies. 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. Bridget Joness Diary(1996) and Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason(1999) were published in 40 countries and sold more than 15 million copies. 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. 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 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. ![]() 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. izzyfe 7 Bridget Jones s powerful exit Tap to play GIF Tap to play GIF Miramax Films I absolutely love the scene in Bridget Joness Diary when Bridget. 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). ![]() (Note: Over 500 of my movie reviews are now available in my book "Cut to the Chaise Lounge or I Can't Believe I Swallowed the Remote!" Get it at Amazon.) 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.
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