Bridget Jones: Mad About The Boy
- 2025 film
A fourth film in the hit comedy series following unlucky-in-love journalist Bridget Jones, now widowed with two young children. Stars Renée Zellweger, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Leo Woodall, Jim Broadbent, Gemma Jones and more.
- New film - out now
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Granny pants and situationships: Lessons Bridget Jones taught me in my 20s
Your 20s are a whirlwind of bad dates, career crises, and wondering if you'll ever really get your life together. Enter Bridget Jones, the queen of chaotic charm, who has been stumbling through life lessons since before many of us can remember.
Yasmin Rufo and Noor Nanji, BBC, 8th February 2025Bridget Jones - the "frazzled Englishwoman" look is back
The character and her "absolutely enormous pants" return to the silver screen in Mad About The Boy.
Carola Long, The Financial Times, 8th February 2025Bridget Jones is a welcome reminder of a much more comfortable era
She worried about her drinking, smoking and weight - but there was never any doubt she would have a job and be able to pay her rent. It's a very different world for gen Z.
Zoe Williams, The Guardian, 3rd February 2025Is it time to stop bashing Bridget Jones? Hapless everywoman has evolved - and so have we
A fourth film about Helen Fielding's creation will be released on Valentines's day, and this time it's gen Z that has fallen in love with her.
Barbara Ellen, The Guardian, 1st February 2025Big knickers, bad decisions and old bats: Renée Zellweger on the return of Bridget Jones
Nearly 25 years after the first film, the actor, her co-stars and the writer Helen Fielding discuss the ultimate singleton, love and loss - and why Bridget Jones is the female James Bond.
Hollie Richardson, The Guardian, 31st January 2025Is Bridget Jones' Darcy based on Keir Starmer?
Author Helen Fielding has discussed bringing her heroine to a Gen Z audience, and whether Bridget Jones' Darcy was based on Prime Minister Keir Starmer.
Charlotte Gallagher, BBC, 31st January 2025Bridget Jones may be 'problematic' but she's just as relatable in 2025
The perma-dieting, toxic man-loving heroine of Helen Fielding's books is easily written off as a product of her time.
Claudia Cockerell, Evening Standard, 31st January 2025Renée Zellweger: 'Fingers crossed' this is not the end of Bridget Jones
Bridget Jones: Mad About The Boy has been billed as the fourth and final film in the series - but its star Renée Zellweger says she has her "fingers crossed" that is not the case.
Charlotte Gallagher, BBC, 29th January 2025Bridget Jones was the perfect scrappy heroine - how can Gen Z possibly relate?
Renée Zellweger is back as the big pants-wearing, Silk Cut-inhaling, toy-boy loving Nineties star we all fell in love with - but with Gen Z choosing wellbeing over wine o'clock, how will she go down this time round?
Emily Sheffield, The Independent, 27th January 2025Does Bridget Jones 4 serve any purpose?
Are you brave enough to peer down the bottomless pit of cash-grab sequels popping out of Hollywood? Then kick aside the detritus of Joker 2 and Inside Out 2 and make way for Mad About The Boy, also known as Bridget Jones 4.
Urooba Rasool, The Express Tribune, 11th October 2024