Bridget Jones's Diary

Romantic Comedy

Renee Zellweger
Honor Blackman
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
Dolly Wells	Woney

Director

Sharon Maguire

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 for her boss Daniel {Hugh Grant), a dashing lothario who begins to send her suggestive e-mails that soon lead to a dinner date proposition. Daniel reveals that he and Mark attended college together, during which time Mark had an affair with his fiancée. When Bridget finds Daniel cavorting with an American colleague, she decides to change her life with a new job as a TV presenter. At a dinner party, she bumps into Mark again, who expresses his affection for her; when Daniel claims he wants Bridget back, the two fight over who deserves her affections the most. Popular British performers Gemma Jones, Jim Broadbent, and Shirley Henderson appear in the supporting cast. — Jason Clark