Bridget Jones’s Diary
Cast: Renée Zellweger, Hugh Grant, Colin Firth, Gemma Jones and Jim Broadbent
Director: Sharon Maguire
Writers: Helen Fielding, Andrew Davies and Richard Curtis
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The story of Bridget Jones is based on Helen Fielding’s novel. Renée Zellweger who was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress for her role, plays Bridget Jones a London woman i her early thirties, who smokes and drinks too much and usually says whatever pops up in her mind.
Bridget is still single and worried about her weight. She works at a book publishing company in London and fantasizes about her boss Daniel Cleaver (played by Hugh Grant). At a Christmas party at her parents house, she meets Mark Darcy (played by Colin Firth), who is a son of her parents friends. Their meeting at the Christmas party dosen’t start well, Mark decides that Bridget is a fool, and Bridget thinks that he is arrogant and rude.
Then, on New Year’s Day having a hung over, Bridget decides to get a grip on her life and start a diary. The goal is to lose 20 pounds and find a nice sensible boyfriend.
And Bridget is ecstatic when she and Daniel begin to flirt heavily at work and eventually start dating. Bridget learns that Daniel and Mark hate each other although they used to be friends before and Daniel tells Bridget that Mark broke their friendship by sleeping with his fiancee.
But Bridget soon learns that Daniel has a cheap-jack character and when she she catches him with another woman, she breaks off their relationship and quits her job at the book publishing company.
Bridget finds a new job in television and as time goes by she and Mark repeatedly run into each other. In one of those run-ins, Mark helps Bridget to land an exclusive interview for her work and Bridget starts to develop feelings for him.
The feelings seem to be mutual and Mark confesses to Bridget that he likes her just the way she is. But when Bridget and Mark finally seem to have found the tone, Daniel comes back into the picture …
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It is not always easy to be the only single in a party
Bridget is invited to friend’s dinner party and has to put up with smug couples
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