Bridget Jones's Diary (2001)
Average Rating: 6.9/10
Reviews Counted: 154
Fresh: 124 | Rotten: 30
Though there was controversy over the choice of casting, Zellweger's Bridget Jones is a sympathetic, likable, funny character, giving this romantic comedy a lot of charm.
Average Rating: 6.2/10
Critic Reviews: 38
Fresh: 26 | Rotten: 12
Though there was controversy over the choice of casting, Zellweger's Bridget Jones is a sympathetic, likable, funny character, giving this romantic comedy a lot of charm.
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Based on Helen Fielding's hugely popular novel, this romantic comedy follows Bridget (Renee Zellweger), a post-feminist, thirty-something British woman who has a penchant for alcoholic binges, smoking, and an inability to control her weight. While trying to keep these things in check and also deal with her job in publishing, she visits her parents for a Christmas party. They try to set her up with Mark (Colin Firth), the visiting son of one of their neighbors. Snubbed by Mark, she instead falls
Cast
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Renée Zellweger
Bridget Jones -
Colin Firth
Mark Darcy -
Hugh Grant
Daniel Cleaver -
Gemma Jones
Bridget's Mum -
Jim Broadbent
Bridget's Dad -
Embeth Davidtz
Natasha -
Shirley Henderson
Jude -
Sally Phillips
Shazza -
James Callis
Tom -
Joseph Alessi
Interviewer 1 -
Joan Blackman
Shirley -
Paul Brooke
Mr. Fitzherbert -
David Cann
Cameraman -
Johnny Clegg
Elderly Man -
James Faulkner
Uncle Geoffrey -
Charmian May
Mrs. Darcy -
Neil Pearson
Richard Finch -
Salman Rushdie
Himself -
Renu Setna
Mr. Ramdas -
Claire Skinner
Magda -
Sarah Stockbridge
Melinda -
Paul Ross
Mr. Sit Up Britain -
Charlie Caine
Handsome Stranger -
Celia Imrie
Una Alconbury -
Donald Douglas
Mr. Darcy -
Lisa Barbuscia
Lara -
Lisa Kay
Eleanor Ross Heaney -
Patrick Barlow
Julian -
Dolly Wells
Woney -
Sulayman Al-Bassam
Kafir Aghani -
Emma Amos
Pauline -
Jeffrey Archer
Himself -
Matthew Bates
Kafka Author -
Rebecca Charles
Receptionist -
Rhydian Jai-Persad
Interviewer 2 -
Mark Lingwood
Cosmo -
Gareth Marks
Simon in Marketing -
Milennia Strings
The Musicians -
Felicity Montagu
Perpetua -
Toby Whithouse
Alastair -
Stewart Wright
Stage Manager -
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All Critics (156) | Top Critics (38) | Fresh (127) | Rotten (31) | DVD (28)
As a film, however, item misses its mark, failing to capitalize on the staccato rhythms and sardonic wit of Bridget's inner life.
Top CriticIt's so aggressive you don't even have to like it; the movie likes itself well enough for the both of you.
Ms. Zellweger makes the most of what she's given and manages to triumph time and again over her pratfalls and public rump displays. In a word, she's terrific.
This ultra-hyped adaptation of the ultra-successful Helen Fielding novel sends you out with a smile on your face.
It's Zellweger's unselfishness that sells the movie. How many other young actresses would be willing to let a movie make fun of their fat thighs?
Yes, the movie adaptation is just fine, thank you.
A blessed reminder of just how good -- and how pointed -- British comedies can be.
Oh, such fun for older teens!
Casting Renee Zellweger as this British icon drew plenty of flak. But she proved impossible to not root for while flashing a sweet smile, bunching her body up in a "right-o, old chap" shoulder shrug and waddle-walking in unflattering panties and girdles.
Just seconds into Sharon Maguire's adaptation of Helen Fielding's beloved novel, it's hard to imagine that there was such controversy surrounding the casting of Renee Zellweger.
Provides a few laughs but failed to make me care on which loves-me, loves-me-not petal this film ends.
A cheerfully frothy romantic comedy that benefits from sharp writing, lively performances and touching characterisation.
The filmmakers are uncritically in love with their heroine and her milieux and have romanticised them to an almost laughable degree.
Renee Zellweger, a born Texan, not only nails the most beloved woman of modern British fiction but embodies and owns her.
A ripping success.
With great energy, style and humor, Maguire takes us into Bridget's tumultuous journey out of spinsterhood and into the tumultuous world of dating.
...if you like the movie and you haven't bought it yet, the special Collector's Edition makes sense. (Collector's Edition DVD)
Americans...will find Zellweger's newly acquired English accent believable enough to enjoy her comic performance.
Audience Reviews for Bridget Jones's Diary
Super Reviewer
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- Bridget Jones: Now, I'll go home and... de-bunny.
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- Bridget Jones: And that was it. Right there. Right there, that was the moment... I suddenly realized that unless something change soon I was going to live a life where my major relationship was with a bottle of wine and I'd finally die fat and alone and be found three weeks later half-eaten by Alsatians, or I was about to turn into Glenn Close in Fatal Attraction.
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- Mark Darcy: Mother, I do not need a blind date. Particularly not with some verbally incontinent spinster who smokes like a chimney, drinks like a fish, and dresses like her mother.
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- Interviewer 1: What do you think about the El Nino phenomenon?
- Bridget Jones: It's a blip. Latin music's on its way out.
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- Bridget Jones: Wait a minute... nice boys don't kiss like that.
- Mark Darcy: Oh yes, they fuckin' do.
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- Bridget Jones: This is an occasion for genuinely tiny knickers.
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Foreign Titles
- Bridget Jones - Schokolade zum Frühstück (DE)
- Le Journal de Bridget Jones (FR)
