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The Bridget Jones film series consists of romantic comedy films based on the book series of the same name by Helen Fielding.Starring Renée Zellweger in the title role, with an ensemble supporting cast, the films follow the life events of primary characters Bridget Jones, Mark Darcy, and Daniel Cleaver and explore their respective relationships.
Bridget Jones's Diary is a 2001 romantic comedy film directed by Sharon Maguire from a screenplay by Helen Fielding, Andrew Davies and Richard Curtis. It is based on the 1996 novel of the same name by Fielding, which was itself a loose adaptation of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice .
Helen Fielding [2] (born 19 February 1958) [3] is a British journalist, novelist and screenwriter, best known as the creator of the fictional character Bridget Jones.Fielding’s first novel was set in a refugee camp in East Africa and she started writing Bridget Jones in an anonymous column in London’s Independent newspaper.
The 2000 original was followed by two more films — 2004’s “Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason” and 2016’s “Bridget Jones’s Baby” — and now, “Bridget Jones: Mad About a Boy.”
Bridget Jones’s Diary is, of course, a snapshot of its time—all movies that are 25, 50, 100 years old are going to look a little strange to modern eyes. But that’s the value of stepping away ...
The second installment, 2004’s Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason, sees him cowardly turning the other way when Bridget is apprehended by armed police as she attempts to board a flight home from ...
Helen Fielding (as Bridget Jones) wrote of her love of the 1995 BBC adaptation of Pride and Prejudice in her Bridget Jones's Diary column during the original British broadcast, [15] mentioning her "simple human need for Darcy to get off with Elizabeth" and regarding the couple as her "chosen representatives in the field of shagging, or rather ...
Hugh Grant and Renee Zellweger at the New York premier "Bridget Jones's Diary" in April 2001. DOUG KANTER/AFP via Getty Images The fourth movie will be a bit darker than its predecessors because ...