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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
Manufacturer: Miramax
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Miramax
Region Code: 1
Release Date: November 09, 2004
Running Time: 98 minutes
Sales Rank: 1917
Studio: Miramax
Theatrical Release Date: April 13, 2001
Editorial Review:
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
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
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Excellent
Love Bridget Jones - I have purchased 2 DVDs (just in case one is "damaged" from overuse.
My only disappointment is that I would have liked the full screen version and when I went to order it you no longer had it in stock.
Perhaps you'll restock?
Rating:  - Too slick
This "take off" on the Jane Austen classic, Pride & Prejudice, is a disappointment, and the portrayal of immoral behavior is an insult to Jane Austen. If movies were kept "clean", our young people would not think that immoral behavior is "normal". The world would be a better place.
Rating:  - not bad
this movie wasn't bad it was an okay film. not bad for a chick flick i've seen worse. it was okay.
Rating: - A romantic comedy with actual comedy!
Much had been made back when Renée Zellweger landed the role of one of England's most recent iconic characters, Bridget Jones, a thirtysomething woman looking for love while dealing with her job, wacky parents, well-meaning yet misguided friends, and of course, the perils of her love life. Yet Ms. Zellweger pulled off Bridget flawlessly.
Yes, Bridget is not the prototype of the Independent Woman. And I think it is on purpose. The movie, in my opinion, is about not being perfect but ... Read More
Rating:  - Triple A - Awful, appalling, atrocious!
I picked this up because I heard that it was a modern retelling of Pride and Prejudice, that all-time favourite of women who can read English. Compare this to the BBC production of that Jane Austen gem Pride and Prejudice (A&E, 1996) which stars Jennifer Ehle and Colin Firth (who also plays Darcy here) and ask yourself who the more dignified, broad-minded and liberated woman is - Bridget Jones or Elizabeth Bennett?
Elizabeth Bennett lived at a time when very few women could even ... Read More
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