Celia Imrie, Colin Firth, Crispin Bonham-Carter

At the start of the new year, 32-year-old Bridget decides it's time to take control of her life-and start keeping a diary. Now, the most provocative, erotic and hysterical book on her bedside table is...( read more  read more... ) the one she's writing. With a taste for adventure, and an opinion on every subject-from exercise to men to food to sex and everything in between-she's turning the page on a whole new life.

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80% liked it

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R, 1 hr. 34 min.

Directed by: Sharon Maguire

Release Date: April 13, 2001

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DVD Release Date: October 9, 2001

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  • October 17, 2009
    So funny! Hugh Grant is hilarious, as is Renee Zellweger. I was laughing throughout the movie.
  • September 24, 2009
    Absolute crap and an insult to Englishmen!
  • January 18, 2009
    Excellent adaptation of the novel. Bridget is unlucky in love, a little overweight, smokes too much and has an embarrassing mother. This is her lucky year - two men but will she chose Mr. Right? I love the fighting scene in the street. It's classic.
  • August 2, 2008
    Never let it be said that I will not suffer for my art because yes, I finally gritted my teeth and sat through Bridget Jones's Diary. And I got exactly what I was expecting. A piss-weak sitcom full of the kind of pseudo-observational humour that was starting to look tired by the ...( read more)end of the 80s. Hugh Grant is Hugh Grant again, and Renee Zellweger also suffers for her art by putting on two whole stone for her part for which she gamely falls over, models oversized pants and shows up to non fancy dress parties in playboy bunny outfits. All unbelievably lacking in originality, invention and (for me at least) laughs. But obviously I am not the target audience which clearly is the collection of self-perpetuating stereotypical 30 something women whose idea of a good time is lighting some candles and having a bath. At least I can say I've done it now so I never have to do it again...
  • June 25, 2008
    Bridget Jones: Thank you, Daniel, that is very good to know. But if staying here means working within 10 yards of you, frankly, I'd rather have a job wiping Saddam Hussein's arse.

    Bridget Jones is a real person. She's someone any of us knows, as are her two would-be suit...( read more)ors, her gadfly friends, her stroppy parents and the melange of people who populate her life in this year. How they got a woman from Texas to sound so believably British is a minor miracle, and it's one of the many ways Renee Zellweger shines in this role. British women need not despair that an American got this role, because she does them all proud. Though I've not read all of Helen Fielding's book, the film captures the essence of a thirtysomething woman struggling for self-definition in a world of pigeon holes.

    What was even more refreshing was to see Hugh Grant playing a downright scoundrel, departing from the shy, erstwhile characters he usually plays. He, too, deserves kudos for a totally believable. So does Colin Firth as the stodgy Mark Darcy. Though a couple of characters in the book were a bit forgotten, the balance of the film is charming, endearing and down-to-earth. It's a film one can enjoy "just the way it is."

    3.5/5
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  • November 4, 2009
    El diario de Britney Spears...
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    Tipicas mujeres masoquistas! ...y sigo sin entenderlas! Siempre se enamoran del Jijo de su... que les hace daño!
  • October 31, 2009
    Saw and loved. Colin Firth.
  • October 30, 2009
    super funny.. very cute love story.
  • October 29, 2009
    A lovely romantic comedy about a modern and average British career woman looking for love.

Critic Reviews


April 13, 2001
David Edelstein, Slate

Let me say in Bridget Jonesy fashion that Zellweger is an irresistible sex goddess, hurrah!!! full review

April 13, 2001
Stephanie Zacharek, Salon.com

The script is teasingly, pleasingly raunchy in places. full review

April 13, 2001
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times

A story like this can't work unless we feel unconditional affection for the heroine, and casting Zellweger achieves that. full review

April 5, 2001
Peter Travers, Rolling Stone

Delivers frisky fun for bruised romantics regardless of age, sex or nationality. full review

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Comments


  • lili2bsb
    February 14, 2009
    i love colin firth!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
  • juliecooney
    July 23, 2008
    This film is one of my favourites, put it on when i am feeling down, or when i have the house to myself with a glass of red wine
  • chinapotter1
    July 24, 2006
    this is a great movie....
    Renée Zellweger and Colin Firth are great!!!!!!!!!!!
    lol!!!!!!
    is the best movie ever!!!!!!!!!

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