Bridget Jones's Diary

"All women keep score... Only the great ones put it in writing."

2001 1h 37m EN

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6.7

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★6.7TMDB · 5,658

ComedyRomanceDrama

Synopsis

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Bridget Jones is an average woman struggling against expectations. As a New Year's resolution, Bridget decides to take control of her life, starting by keeping a diary in which she will always tell the complete truth. Her charming boss takes an interest in her, and she cannot stop running into a rather disagreeable acquaintance whom Bridget cannot help finding quietly attractive.

“All women keep score... Only the great ones put it in writing.”

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Cast

Renée Zellweger
Bridget Jones
Colin Firth
Mark Darcy
Hugh Grant
Daniel Cleaver
Jim Broadbent
Bridget's Dad
Gemma Jones
Bridget's Mum
James Callis
Tom
Sally Phillips
Shazza
Shirley Henderson
Jude

Credits

Behind the camera

Director: Sharon Maguire
Writers: Helen Fielding, Andrew Davies, Richard Curtis
Languages: English
Countries: Ireland, United States of America, France, United Kingdom

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MONEY

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Grossed $282M — a 11.3× return. The kind of profit studios chase for a decade.

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ERA

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25 years old — old enough to be someone's favourite childhood film.

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WORLD

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International production across 4 countries: Ireland, United States of America, France, United Kingdom.

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CINEMA

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Part of the "Bridget Jones Collection" — so the characters or world continue elsewhere.

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DIRECTOR

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Directed by Sharon Maguire, shot by Stuart Dryburgh. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.

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DIRECTOR

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Original score by Patrick Doyle. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.

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DIRECTOR

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Editor Martin Walsh shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.

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CAST

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Renée Zellweger and Colin Firth and Hugh Grant carry the top of the cast.

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Cinephile deep dive

The take

Sharon Maguire directs. Stuart Dryburgh behind the camera. Patrick Doyle scores. Martin Walsh cuts. Runs lean at under 100 minutes. Made its budget back several times over at the box office. Produced in Ireland, United States of America, France, United Kingdom. Dialogue in English.

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Things worth knowing

1Grossed $282M — a 11.3× return. The kind of profit studios chase for a decade.
225 years old — old enough to be someone's favourite childhood film.
3International production across 4 countries: Ireland, United States of America, France, United Kingdom.
4Part of the "Bridget Jones Collection" — so the characters or world continue elsewhere.
5Directed by Sharon Maguire, shot by Stuart Dryburgh. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.
6Original score by Patrick Doyle. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.
7Editor Martin Walsh shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.
8Renée Zellweger and Colin Firth and Hugh Grant carry the top of the cast.
9Marketing tagline: "All women keep score... Only the great ones put it in writing.".
10IMDB entry: tt0243155 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.
11Classified under 19 themes, including "daughter", "london, england", "lovesickness", "based on novel or book".

The technical file

Cinematography: Stuart Dryburgh
Original score: Patrick Doyle
Editing: Martin Walsh
Production design: Gemma Jackson
Costume design: Rachael Fleming
Makeup / hair: Carmel Jackson
VFX supervisor: Frazer Churchill
Sound: John Hayward
Runtime: 97 min · 1h 37m
Aspect ratio (typical): 1.78:1 (16:9)
Status: Released
Budget: $25,000,000
Box office: $281,929,795
Return: 1128% of budget
Original language: EN
Certification (US): R
IMDB: Bridget Jones's Diary (2001)

Awards

Jameson People's Choice Award for Best Actor

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Part of

Bridget Jones Collection

Bridget Jones is a franchise based on the fictional columnist with the same name. English writer Helen Fielding started her Bridget Jones’s Diary column in The Independent in 1995, chronicling the life of Bridget Jones as a thirtysomething single woman in London as she tries to make sense of life and love with the help of a surrogate «urban family» of friends in the 1990s.

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Peter McGinn2020-04-04
★ 7/10
Great little charmer. But avoid the sequels like a bad Christmas sweater I think you need to like romantic comedies to enjoy this movie, and that eliminates a lot of guys who tolerate Rom-Coms for the sake of their ladies. And I wonder if they hadn't chosen the actors and actresses for the dozen or so lead and supporting roles so well, this film would have been more of a stinker. But they procured a fine ensemble cast and that keeps the smell down to a bare minimum. There are awkward, cringe-worthy moments that don't make me giggle as they are supposed to - too much gray in my hair, perhaps? (And there isn't that much really!) But despite those awkward lines, to paraphrase a line in the movie, I like it just the way it is. And I think it should have been kept just the way it was. I am now referring to the sequels. Don't get me started, please. The follow-up turned into what just referred to, what the original film could have been like if they hadn't kept their eye on the proverbial ball. As for the second sequel, I just found out today that it exists and I will keep my distance. Stick to the original, I say, and let the rest of the franchise float unbidden out there, just beyond the corner of your eye.
Wuchak2020-08-25
★ 7/10
Edgy, cute and amusing romcom with Renée Zellweger, Hugh Grant and Colin Firth A cute female in London (Renée Zellweger) is concerned about spinsterhood & other womanly issues and so starts an honest diary that narrates her misadventures catching the eye of her suave boss at a publishing company (Hugh Grant), her quirky friends and her relationship with a boring man she hates but somehow finds quietly attractive (Colin Firth). “Bridget Jones’s Diary” (2001) is an English romcom that tries to be edgy, cute and amusing simultaneously. While it goes overboard with the cussing (less is always more) and the accents are too thick to grasp at times, the flick eventually won me over because it tries so hard and everything builds to a comical melee. It helps that Renée is adorable in a roundish way and is tastefully shown in alluring apparel, including a playboy bunny outfit. The film runs 1 hour, 37 minutes, and was shot London, Surrey, Gloucestershire and Hertfordshire, England. GRADE: B
CinemaSerf2025-01-15
★ 7/10
I was watching a documentary on the late Dame Maggie Smith the other day that was narrated by the amiable Celia Imrie (herself still awaiting that particular gong) and she brings that affability to this rather dated but enjoyable comedy drama too. It's all centred around the loveless "Bridget" (Renée Zellweger) who hasn't had sex for a while and has the hots for her floppy-haired boss "Daniel" (Hugh Grant). After a few rather embarrassing encounters, they finally do hook up but then she discovers he's a bit of a rake and takes a new job in television working for sleazebag tele-journalist "Finch" (Neil Pearson). Thanks to an incident with a fireman's pole, that doesn't exactly go to plan either, but it does offer her the opportunity to get it together with posh barrister "Mark" (Colin Firth). Now she's known him for a while but took an instant dislike to him at a curry party, so what's changed? Has she discovered a new penchant for striped suits and wigs? I remember reading the book at the time and feeling a certain degree of sympathy with old "Bridj". It was just at the start of the now all-encompassing validation culture when we'd dial 1471 on our land-lines when we get home only to find nobody had called (again) and where office instant messaging was rendering scuttlebutt obsolete as gossip and flirtation became the order of many a professional day. It's that culture of feeling needed, liked and wanted that Helen Fielding encapsulated so well with this character. Hapless, yes, but decent and given a chance - loving too. Zellweger delivers charmingly and enthusiastically, as does in a more roguish form Hugh Grant. As to Firth, I'm never quite sure how much acting he ever actually does anyway, but here his contribution works well too. It does struggle almost a quarter of a century later to resonate - especially the fisticuffs in the restaurant scene, but it still has enough wit and pith in the cleverly crafted and observational script to raise a chortle and be grateful for a series of daft scenarios that poke fun at the whole business of courtship amongst the young and the old. Also, of course, Celia gets to look shocked and amazed as only she can, too.