Bridget Jones's Diary

Renée Zellweger - Bridget Jones
Colin Firth - Mark Darcy
Hugh Grant - Daniel Cleaver
Honor Blackman - Penny
Crispin Bonham-Carter - Greg
Jim Broadbent - Colin Jones

First time director Sharon Maguire expertly marshals the combined talents of Zellweger, Firth and Grant to faithfully transform Helen Fielding's literary best-seller into a magic movie. Richard Curtis provides the script, in keeping with his earlier successful romantic comedies Four Weddings and a Funeral and Notting Hill.

The 32-year-old ‘singleton’ Bridget Jones (Renee Zellweger) is a chain-smoking, chocolate-munching, Chardonnay-swigging PR girl who stumbles from one disaster to another in her search of a meaningful relationship. Bridget decides to take control of her life and start keeping a diary to record her futile battle with dieting, unbearable dinner parties, romantic affairs and her relationships with friends. Bridget’s love life is a quandary between the wrong man, her boss, the delightfully sleazy Daniel Cleaver (Hugh Grant), and the reliable yet remote barrister Mark Darcy (Colin Firth). We get to see them have a full-on fight, and the poor girl caught in the unenviable middle of all this is our national heroine Bridget. There's slapstick aplenty and a gag every three minutes, constantly reminding us of Bridget's hang-ups, yet the film achieves everything it sets out to do.