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User Rating:
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Director:
Sharon Maguire
Writers:
Helen Fielding (novel)Helen Fielding (screenplay) ...more
Release Date:
6 September 2001 (Hong Kong)
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Genre:
Comedy / Drama / Romance more
Tagline:
It's Monday morning, Bridget has woken up with a headache, a hangover and her boss. more
Plot Outline:
A British woman is determined to improve herself while she looks for love in a year in which she keeps a personal diary. more
Plot Keywords:
Britain
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England
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Romantic Comedy
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Adultery
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Book Publishing
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Awards:
Nominated for Oscar.
Another 7 wins
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29 nominations
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User Comments:
My favorite Romantic Comedy
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(Cast overview, first billed only)Renée Zellweger ... Bridget JonesGemma Jones ... Bridget's MumCelia Imrie ... Una AlconburyJames Faulkner ... Uncle GeoffreyJim Broadbent ... Bridget's DadColin Firth ... Mark DarcyCharmian May ... Mrs. DarcyHugh Grant ... Daniel CleaverPaul Brooke ... Mr. FitzherbertFelicity Montagu ... PerpetuaShirley Henderson ... JudeSally Phillips ... ShazzaJames Callis ... TomCharlie Caine ... Handsome StrangerGareth Marks ... Simon in Marketingmore
Also Known As:Bridget Jones (UK) (informal title) Journal de Bridget Jones, Le (France)
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MPAA:
Rated R for language and some strong sexuality.
Runtime:
97 min
Country:
UK / France
Language:
English
Color:
Color (Technicolor)
Aspect Ratio:
2.35 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
SDDS/ Dolby Digital/ DTS
Certification:
Malaysia:18SX/ Iceland:L/ Argentina:13/ Australia:M (cut) / Brazil:14/ Chile:14/ Denmark:7/ Finland:K-11/ France:U/ Germany:12 (bw) / Hong Kong:IIB/ Ireland:15 (cut) / Japan:R-15/ Netherlands:12/ Norway:11/ Peru:14/ Portugal:M/12/ Singapore:PG/ South Korea:18/ Spain:13/ Sweden:7/ UK:15 (cut) / USA:R (certificate #38033)
Filming Locations:
Borough Market, Borough, London, England, UK
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Company:
Little Bird Ltd.
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Trivia:
When Helen Fielding wrote the novel Bridget Jones's Diary, she based the character of Mark Darcy on Colin Firth's depiction of Mr. Darcy in "Pride and Prejudice" (1995) (mini). In addition to the inside-joke casting of Colin Firth as Mark Darcy, there are several other allusions to Jane Austen's story: Mark disparages Bridget to his mother within earshot of Bridget. In Pride and Prejudice, Mr. Darcy disparages Elizabeth to his friend Mr. Bingley within earshot of Elizabeth. Daniel Cleaver lies to Bridget about a dispute between him and Mark, claiming Mark stole his fiancée; in fact, it was the other way around. In Pride and Prejudice, it's a dispute between Mr. Wickham and Mr. Darcy, and Wickham lies about who's at fault. The Darcy in both stories fails to disabuse the heroine's misinformed notion until it's almost too late. Bridget works at Pemberley Press; Mr. Darcy lives at Pemberley estate. Crispin Bonham-Carter was in both productions (his scenes were cut out of Bridget Jones's Diary, although he can still be seen in the job-quitting scene and can also be seen at the Kafka book launch where Bridget asks Salman Rushdie where the toilets are - he is seen as the man on the left in the conversation.).
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Goofs:
Continuity: When we first see Bridget writing in her diary, listing the type of person she's not going to get involved with (with narration), she is writing on the left-hand page. In the next shot, she is at the bottom of the right-hand page.
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Quotes:
Bridget:
The only thing worse than smug married couple; lots of smug married couples.
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Movie Connections:
Spoofed in "Torchwood: Greeks Bearing Gifts (#1.7)" (2006)
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Soundtrack:
ME AND MRS JONES
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16 out of 20 people found the following comment useful:-
My favorite Romantic Comedy, 1 June 2005
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Critic2017B from Tallahassee, FL
This film I only discovered fairly recently, and just absolutely fell
in love with it. It sure seemed familiar and lo and behold then I read
about the Pride and Prejudice connection and then it all made complete
sense.This is such a charming, lovely homage to Pride and Prejudice. The
three lead characters are just perfect. It is funny, sweet at times,
sad at others, and just wonderfully sexy and v. romantic (especially
the last 1/4th of it).Renee is so extraordinary as Bridget Jones, who would have ever thought
she could play so believable a modern Brit woman so well. Her accent
seems flawless to me. Hugh Grant is hilarious and a charming Lothario
throughout. But Colin Firth is who really sold me on this film. His
ability to play a guy that you start out not liking but drooling over
by the end of the movie is sublime.I am a big fan of the less is more style of acting that Mr. Firth puts
forth in this film...much of his performance is in his eyes and his
facial expressions. While Daniel (Mr. Grant's character) chatters on
and on and tries to charm with his wit and words, Mark Darcy (Mr.
Firth's character) just has a strong and rather silent presence along
with an integrity of character that is revealed and he wins us over (as
well as Bridget).This movie has a lot going on outside of the wonderful romance as well.
Contemporary events, gender inequities, social differences, work place
decorum, fashion, self-image, sex, family, and friendship all come
under the scrutiny of Bridget Jones and her diary.This is a very good adaptation of a beloved novel. The tone, scene
selection, dialogue and characters capture the essence of what fans of
the book love about it. I cannot imagine it any better cast or written.
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