Bridget Jones's Diary
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 9780788830662
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, Widescreen, NTSC
ISBN: 078883066X
Label: Miramax
Manufacturer: Miramax
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Miramax
Region Code: 1
Release Date: October 09, 2001
Running Time: 98 minutes
Sales Rank: 11569
Studio: Miramax
Theatrical Release Date: 2001
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Editorial Review:
Amazon.com:
Featuring a blowzy, winningly inept size-12 heroine, Bridget Jones's Diary is a fetching adaptation of Helen Fielding's runaway bestseller, grittier than Ally McBeal but sweeter than Sex and the City. The normally sylphlike Renée Zellweger (Nurse Betty, Me, Myself and Irene) wolfed pasta to gain poundage to play 'singleton' Bridget, a London-based publicist who divides her free time between binge eating in front of the TV, downing Chardonnay with her friends, and updating the diary in which she records her negligible weight fluctuations and romantic misadventures of the year. Things start off badly at Christmas when her mother tries to set her up with seemingly standoffish lawyer Mark Darcy (Colin Firth), whom Bridget accidentally overhears dissing her. Instead she embarks on a disastrous liaison with her raffish boss, Daniel Cleaver (Hugh Grant, infinitely more likeable when he's playing a baddie instead of his patented tongue-tied fops). Eventually, Bridget comes to wonder if she's let her pride prejudice her against the surprisingly attractive Mr. Darcy.
If the plot sounds familiar, that's because Fielding's novel was itself a retelling of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice, whose romantic male lead is also named Mr. Darcy. An extra ironic poke in the ribs is added by the casting of Firth, who played Austen's haughty hero in the acclaimed BBC adaptation of Austen's novel. First-time director Sharon Maguire directs with confident comic zest, while Zellweger twinkles charmingly, fearlessly baring her cellulite and pulling off a spot-on English accent. Like Four Weddings and a Funeral and Notting Hill (both of which were written by this film's coscreenwriter, Richard Curtis), Bridget Jones's stock-in-trade is a very English self-deprecating sense of humor, a mild suspicion of Americans (especially if they're thin and successful), and a subtly expressed analysis of thirtysomething fears about growing up and becoming a 'smug married.' The whole is, as Bridget would say, v. good. --Leslie Felperin
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- A Bitter Sweet Movie This movie was a bit comical, but also very touching and tear jerking too, since Bridget(Renee Zellwegger) ... Read More
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- for romanticsRecommended by the great book "Cinemotherapy for Lovers" in the "Finding Your Prince" chapter. British? About ... Read More
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- Silly funThis movie has a special place in my heart, because I saw it screened at my college shortly after September 11th, ... Read More
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- Quirky heroine in modern age screwball comedy...RENEE ZELLWEGER plays such a klutzy frump of a girl in this British screwball comedy that it's hard to imagine COLIN ... Read More
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- You'll never get a boyfriend if you look like you wandered out of Auschwitz. OK, I am an avid fan of Jane Austen, but Bridget Jones is NOTHING like Austen. Anyone with the slightest of ideas ... Read More
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