Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason

"Big liar. Big lawyer. Big dilemma."

2004 1h 48m EN

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★6.2TMDB · 3,096🥫27%Rotten Tomatoes●44Metacritic★6IMDB · 132,520

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Synopsis

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Bridget Jones is still dating her new love, barrister Mark Darcy, for a perfect six weeks. However, while on assignment in Thailand with her disreputable ex, Daniel Cleaver, claiming to be reformed, Bridget questions if she has everything she's ever dreamed of having.

“Big liar. Big lawyer. Big dilemma.”

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Cast

Renée Zellweger
Bridget
Colin Firth
Mark
Hugh Grant
Daniel
Jacinda Barrett
Rebecca
Jim Broadbent
Dad
Gemma Jones
Mum
Sally Phillips
Shazzer
Celia Imrie
Una Alconbury

Credits

Behind the camera

Director: Beeban Kidron
Writers: Adam Brooks, Helen Fielding, Richard Curtis
Languages: German, Thai, English
Countries: United Kingdom, United States of America, France

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MONEY

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Made its money back 6.6× over at the box office.

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2 / 8

ERA

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Released 22 years ago.

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3 / 8

WORLD

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Dialogue crosses 3 languages: German, Thai, English.

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4 / 8

WORLD

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International production across 3 countries: United Kingdom, United States of America, France.

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5 / 8

CINEMA

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

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6 / 8

CAST

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203+ people credited in cast and crew — a small city's worth of labour.

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7 / 8

DIRECTOR

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Directed by Beeban Kidron, shot by Adrian Biddle. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.

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8 / 8

DIRECTOR

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Original score by Harry Gregson-Williams. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.

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Cinephile deep dive

The take

Beeban Kidron directs. Adrian Biddle behind the camera. Harry Gregson-Williams scores. Greg Hayden cuts. Made its budget back several times over at the box office. Produced in United Kingdom, United States of America, France. Dialogue in German, Thai, English.

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1Made its money back 6.6× over at the box office.
2Released 22 years ago.
3Dialogue crosses 3 languages: German, Thai, English.
4International production across 3 countries: United Kingdom, United States of America, France.
5Part of the "Bridget Jones Collection" — so the characters or world continue elsewhere.
6203+ people credited in cast and crew — a small city's worth of labour.
7Directed by Beeban Kidron, shot by Adrian Biddle. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.
8Original score by Harry Gregson-Williams. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.
9Editor Greg Hayden shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.
10Renée Zellweger and Colin Firth and Hugh Grant carry the top of the cast.
11Marketing tagline: "Big liar. Big lawyer. Big dilemma.".
12IMDB entry: tt0317198 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.
13Classified under 25 themes, including "london, england", "jealousy", "based on novel or book", "drug smuggling".
14Released under 14 different titles around the world.

The technical file

Cinematography: Adrian Biddle
Original score: Harry Gregson-Williams
Editing: Greg Hayden
Production design: Gemma Jackson
Makeup / hair: Carmel Jackson
VFX supervisor: Jody Johnson
Stunt coordinator: Paul Jennings
Runtime: 108 min · 1h 48m
Aspect ratio (typical): 1.37:1 (Academy)
Status: Released
Budget: $40,000,000
Box office: $265,126,918
Return: 663% of budget
Original language: EN
Certification (US): R
IMDB: Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason (2004)
Rotten Tomatoes: 27% 🥫 Rotten
Metacritic: 44/100
IMDB rating: 6/10 · 132,520 votes
MPAA: R

Awards

11 nominations total

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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Narate2025-01-01
★ 6/10
"You think you've found the right man, but there's so much wrong with him, and then he finds there's so much wrong with you, and then it all just falls apart." It feels like an extension of the first movie more than a prequel. I mean that as in it is very similar, contuing from where we left off and is still pretty funny. Lesson for me here is that overthinking is a bitch.
CinemaSerf2025-01-19
★ 6/10
Picking up from the first outing for the ditzy "Bridget" (Renée Zellweger), she is now six weeks into her doting relationship with human rights lawyer "Mark" (Colin Firth). Thanks also to a bit of skydiving and some pigs, she is finding her broadcasting career blossoming too and with boss "Richard" (Neil Pearson) keen to build her part up, she is annoyingly partnered with smarmy old beau "Daniel" (Hugh Grant) and despatched to do a travelogue on Thailand. He's a charmer is that one, but she knows he cannot be trusted. That's successfully proven when she gets herself caught up in a drug smuggling caper and confined to a 40-to-a-cell women's prison with only one fairly hapless Foreign Office gent telling her how sticky her wicket is! Can she be rescued? Can she get back to her beloved? Of course there's not a jot of jeopardy to any of this, and in the intervening three years since the first film this character has lost much of her charm and punch. In many ways this just mirrors that story only it's not so innovative any more. There's still plenty to poke fun at amidst her sexist and accident-prone environment and Zellweger really does have the character down to an hapless T now, but I just felt I knew what was coming long before it did and the writing this time around defers all to often to the soundtrack. It's amiable enough, but a little tired and predictable.
r96sk2025-02-03
★ 6/10
<em>'Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason'</em> is a totally pointless sequel. There isn't really anything substantial that happens in this, it basically goes in one big circle before finishing how it started; aside from one minute-long detail. Admittedly, it does manage to avoid being bad. Renée Zellweger remains a plus, as do Colin Firth and Hugh Grant. With that said, this film adds nothing new to their characters, they are just replicas of themselves from the 2001 original. The film (as before) does have a charm to it, which saves it from a lower rating... too generous?