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Bridget Jones's Diary
Miramax Films
FILM:
MPAA RATING: R for language and some strong sexuality
Starring
Renée Zellweger,
Colin Firth,
Hugh Grant,
Honor Blackman,
Crispin Bonham-Carter,
Jim Broadbent,
James Callis,
and
Embeth Davidtz
At the start of the New Year, 32-year-old Bridget (Zellweger) decides it's time to take control of her life -- and start keeping a diary. Now, the most provocative, erotic and hysterical book on her bedside table is the one she's writing. (Miramax)
| GENRE(S): |
Romance
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| WRITTEN BY: |
Richard Curtis
Andrew Davies
Helen Fielding (also novel)
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| DIRECTED BY: |
Sharon Maguire
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| RELEASE DATE: |
DVD: October 9, 2001
Video: October 9, 2001
Theatrical: April 13, 2001
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| RUNNING TIME: |
92 minutes, Color |
| ORIGIN: |
UK / USA |
Picked up two Golden Globe nominations, for Best Picture (Musical or Comedy) and for Renée Zellweger's lead performance. Zellweger was also nominated for an Oscar.

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100
San Francisco Chronicle
Carla Meyer
A triumph for all involved.

90
The New York Times
Stephen Holden
Ms. Zellweger accomplishes the small miracle of making Bridget both entirely endearing and utterly real.

90
Rolling Stone
Peter Travers
Delivers frisky fun for bruised romantics regardless of age, sex or nationality.

88
New York Daily News
Jami Bernard
A delightful and endearing romantic comedy with the shape and resonance of a Jane Austen novel.

88
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
Made against all odds into a funny and charming movie that understands the charm of the original, and preserves it.

88
Chicago Tribune
Michael Wilmington
The Zellweger-Firth-Grant triangle works as irresistibly as Hepburn-Grant-Stewart in "The Philadelphia Story."
83
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
William Arnold
An endearing comedy that could well end up being one of the year's big hits.

80
Salon.com
Stephanie Zacharek
The script is teasingly, pleasingly raunchy in places.

80
LA Weekly
Ernest Hardy
Bessed with a gleamingly polished, very funny script.

80
Newsweek
Jeff Giles
She's (Zellweger) so disarming and so deeply Bridget -- gliding between mortifying slapstick and pathos -- that she's entirely won you over by the time the credits have rolled. The opening credits.
80
Washington Post
Stephen Hunter
Grant is casually fabulous and very amusing, but all power to Firth the actor. He's the compleat Darcy, and he never wavers.

80
Los Angeles Times
Kenneth Turan
Cheerful, cheeky entertainment, a clever confection.

78
Austin Chronicle
Sarah Hepola
As much romantic fantasy as it is social satire, but more to the point -- it is gloriously and tear-wellingly funny.

75
New York Post
Jonathan Foreman
Warm and charming and often witty, it's as good a romantic comedy as has come out for some time, with an endearing, perfectly pitched central performance that's a four-square triumph for Zellweger.
75
Entertainment Weekly
Lisa Schwarzbaum
Bridget's most attractive asset is that she's played by Renée Zellweger.

75
Philadelphia Inquirer
Carrie Rickey
As adorable and predictable a film as the Helen Fielding best-seller that inspired it.
75
Baltimore Sun
Michael Sragow
Zellweger has a ticklish furriness reminiscent of Jean Arthur in her screwball comic prime.
75
USA Today
Susan Wloszczyna
Where the highly likable actress (Zellweger) proves most valuable is in making us adore this insecure, clumsy, contradictory creature.

75
Boston Globe
Jay Carr
The film not only works better than expected but gets the important things right, starting, of course, with Zellweger's Bridget and Bridget's mind-set.
70
Slate
David Edelstein
Quite likable -- even sometimes, with the squeezable Zellweger its principal object, lovable.

63
Charlotte Observer
Lawrence Toppman
95 breezy minutes that typify cotton-candy filmmaking.

63
Miami Herald
Connie Ogle
It's Zellweger's movie to win or lose, of course, and she succeeds without the slightest touch of Hollywood glamour.
60
Film.com
Robert Horton
The movie gives us episodes from her life, and although some of them are charming and all of them well-played, I occasionally found myself wondering why I should want to be interested in this person.

60
Variety
Lael Loewenstein
Misses its mark, failing to capitalize on the staccato rhythms and sardonic wit of Bridget's inner life.

60
Mr. Showbiz
Kevin Maynard
What's right as rain with Diary is the casting.
50
New York Magazine
Peter Rainer
The filmmakers spend so much time milking gags they should have called it Bridget Jones's Dairy.

50
Chicago Reader
Jonathan Rosenbaum
I could have done without all the pushy tactics of this romantic comedy.

50
TV Guide
Ken Fox
The plot soon dwindles down to little more than a flimsy, Austen-esque comedy of circumstance.

50
Christian Science Monitor
David Sterritt
Fans of the genre will enjoy it if they're not distracted by trite plot twists.

40
Village Voice
Amy Taubin
The three-act structure is too predictable, and at 90 minutes, feels both draggy and hacked to the bone.

40
Washington Post
Desson Thomson
How can you celebrate a movie in which Zellweger doesn't soar but simply avoids disaster?

30
Wall Street Journal
Joe Morgenstern
The worst part of Ms. Zellweger's plight is that she, along with others in the cast, has fallen victim to a first-time feature director whose vocabulary doesn't seem to include the word "simplicity."
30
New Times (L.A.)
Gregory Weinkauf
The urge to laugh is superceded by the urge to slap everybody and command them to stop embarrassing all of humanity.


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