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Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: DVD
Brand: ZELLWEGER,RENEE
EAN: 0786936263398
Format: Closed-captioned, Collector's Edition, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Widescreen, NTSC
Label: Miramax
Languages: EnglishOriginal LanguageDolby Digital 5.1SpanishSubtitled
Manufacturer: Miramax
MPN: 786936263398
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Miramax
Region Code: 1
Release Date: November 09, 2004
Running Time: 97 minutes
Studio: Miramax
Theatrical Release Date: April 13, 2001

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Editorial Review:

Product Description:
Bridget, a single career woman, is torn between her disreputable boss, Daniel Cleaver, and Mark Darcy, a disagreeable, but attractive acquaintance.
Genre: Feature Film-Comedy
Rating: R
Release Date: 9-NOV-2004
Media Type: DVD

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




Rating: - A Bitter Sweet Movie
This movie was a bit comical, but also very touching and tear jerking too, since Bridget(Renee Zellwegger) and Daniel Cleaver(Hugh Grant) started out seeming like the perfect married couple who was hot and heavy and then all of the sudden POOF! Daniel decides to dump Bridget and steals Mark Darcy's wife(Lara)while Bridget discovers that Daniel ended up being unfaithful to her all of the sudden when Bridget walks into their bathroom and finds Daniel's mistress/Mark Darcy's wife(Lara)hiding in there ... Read More

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Rating: - for romantics
Recommended by the great book "Cinemotherapy for Lovers" in the "Finding Your Prince" chapter. British? About doing your own thing, and how that can lead to true love.

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Rating: - Silly fun
This movie has a special place in my heart, because I saw it screened at my college shortly after September 11th, 2001, when everyone was in serious need of some mental relief. This movie delivers, with hilarious situations and a sweetness that leaves you feeling pretty good at the end. Loosely based on Pride and Prejudice, the casting of Colin Firth as Mark Darcy is a tongue-in-cheek shout-out to fans of the original BBC production in which he excellently portrays the original Darcy. I have to admit, ... Read More

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Rating: - 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 FIRTH and HUGH GRANT fighting over her. We're told that it's because she so "natural" that she has men buzzing around her. Well, that might be true if Miss Zellweger looked more like Carole Lombard. In fact, one could easily see this as a screwball comedy back in the '30s if Hollywood made the story starring Lombard, Cary Grant (not Colin Firth) and James Stewart (not Hugh Grant). Get my drift? ... Read More

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Rating: - 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 on the subject can see that.

Helen Fielding wrote both the novel and the screenplay to Bridget Jones's Diary and yes, it is loosely based on Pride and Prejudice. Can I repeat loosely!!! After seeing The BBC version of Pride and Prejudice Fielding based the male character of Mark Darcy on Mr. Fitzwilliam Darcy, because of course she was taken by him and Colin Firth's portrayal.(as ... Read More

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