Bridget Jones's Diary

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Bridget Jones's Diary

R

2001

1h 32m

Romance

Comedy

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At the start of the New Year, 32-year-old Bridget (Renée Zellweger) 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 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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Critics Consensus

Zellweger's Bridget Jones is a sympathetic, likable, funny character, giving this romantic comedy a lot of charm.

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Johanna Thomas-Corr

New Statesman

07/28/2021

Sadly, the film is tragically, depressingly, awfully of its time... The transition to screen stripped out much of Fielding's irony, nuance and cynicism.

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Andrew O'Hagan

Daily Telegraph (UK)

03/01/2018

It's fine, for an evening, if you just want to pack your troubles in an old kit bag.

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Charlotte O'Sullivan

Independent (UK)

11/13/2017

That Zellweger can make us believe in Bridget's heaving inner world is par for the course -- she's a supremely talented comic actress. That she was willing to risk her own status as sex symbol by looking like an everywoman is really impressive.

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Simon Gallagher

Screen Rant

02/18/2025

8/10

24 years on, there's still a lot to love about Sharon Maguire's charming British comedy, even after all the discourse.

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Yasser Medina

Cinefilia

02/13/2025

4/10

Frankly, it's a rather boring, simplistic, humorless romantic comedy that often remains grounded in a series of clichés that take away resonance from the diary of the indecisive thirty-something played by Renée Zellweger. [Full review in Spanish]

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Sebastian Zavala Kahn

Me gusta el cine

02/12/2025

4/5

A film centred on an imperfect woman who has troubled relationships, but who throughout the story learns valuable lessons about love (both towards other people and her own). [Full review in Spanish].

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Elisa

06/02/2021

Terribly so cheesy and so dated - a portrayal of women as dumb and with a low self-esteem, and entirely dependent on men. An insult to women.

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Mariana T

@M.Tezeta Dec 30

Bridget Jones is anything but a spinster; she's naive, easily swayed, an emotional conformist in love, or simply, a woman with bad luck? I complained about her so many times, but after all, she's a woman who's a victim of societal expectations. The plot is crude and predictable, the events even border on trivial, but the film has an aesthetic that will leave you satisfied in the end. Most importantly: Renée Zellweger embodies the character so completely that I even felt sympathy for the (very, very late) evolution of the character. After complaining so much, I say: the praise is understandable, but it's definitely not an unforgettable rom-com.

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Amanda R.

@Evawhy Dec 20

Hilarious, quirky and filled with memorable scenes. The quality of these stories are in fact so memorable that a still photograph by the credits of movie 4 will remind you, with laughter, of some zany trip in number 1. This is where it all started, where the groundwork is laid. It’s fair to say some bits are cringe, but it turns out the early 2000s had a fair bit of cringe ideas.

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Michael John P

@RT36952932 Nov 17

Just horrendous. That Fielding woman should be ashamed of herself.

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Ian H

@Howellsey Oct 27

No surprises but warm and funny and full of neat cameos

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Lucia E

@RT15059611 Sep 13

BRIDGET JONES FOR PRESIDENT

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Synopsis

At the start of the New Year, 32-year-old Bridget (Renée Zellweger) 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 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.

Director: Sharon Maguire
Producer: Tim Bevan, Jonathan Cavendish, Eric Fellner
Screenwriter: Richard Curtis, Andrew Davies, Helen Fielding
Distributor: Universal Pictures, Miramax Films
Production Co: Miramax, Universal Pictures
Rating: R (Some Strong Sexuality|Language)
Genre: Romance, Comedy
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Apr 13, 2001, Wide
Release Date (Streaming): Apr 21, 2016
Box Office (Gross USA): $71.5M
Runtime: 1h 32m
Sound Mix: Dolby SR, DTS, Dolby Stereo, Surround, SDDS, Dolby A, Dolby Digital
Aspect Ratio: Scope (2.35:1)

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