Bridget Jones's Diary
- 2001 film
Film based on Helen Fielding's novel about an unlucky-in-love Londoner who decides to take control of her life and start a diary. Stars Renée Zellweger, Colin Firth, Hugh Grant, Jim Broadbent, Gemma Jones and more.
Streaming rank this week: 149
Press clippings
Bridget Jones back in fashion with Gen Z, author says
Author Helen Fielding says Bridget Jones has found a new audience with Gen Z, who have more problems than young women did 30 years ago but take comfort in the character's trials and tribulations.
Ian Youngs, BBC, 14th October 2024Helen Fielding: "I'm very protective of Bridget Jones"
HHer creation became the voice of a generation. The author talks about blue soup, Keir Starmer and calorie counting.
Hadley Freeman, The Sunday Times, 18th August 2024The very specific appeal of Hugh Grant's romantic declarations
To celebrate 25 years of Notting Hill, Yasmin Omar looks back at how its star has delivered heart-soaring amorous speeches over the years, with all the attendant fumbling and eyelash-fluttering.
Yasmin Omar, Curzon, 20th May 2024Bridget Jones's Diary is my favourite film - but we don't need another
The longer the series is dragged out, the more it dilutes the brilliance of the original, and a character who was loved for being 'just as she is'.
Emily Bootle, i Newspaper, 26th February 2024Lily Allen comments on Bridget Jones musical
Lily Allen has commented on what she hopes will happen to the songs that she has written for a Bridget Jones musical.
Tanyel Gumushan, What's On Stage, 5th February 2024Richard Curtis and the love rival MP behind his films' bumbling Bernards
Richard Curtis has admitted that he names irritating characters in his films Bernard after the Tory MP who stole his university girlfriend.
The Telegraph, 24th June 2023Bridget Jones's Diary costume designer shares Renée Zellweger's bunny outfit demands
Fashion designer Esme Young created the iconic costume for Renée Zellweger for the 2001 romantic comedy Bridget Jones's Diary and how it was so tight the actress couldn't sit down.
Rebecca Cook, The Mirror, 13th April 202215 thoughts watching Bridget Jones's Diary in 2021
So, 20 years after Bridget Jones's Diary was originally released, I finally sat down and watched the film. Here's what I thought.
Diyora Shadijanova, Bustle, 14th April 2021Bridget Jones's Diary at 20
A gloriously messy ode to imperfection.
Rebecca Nicholson, The Guardian, 13th April 2021Where are the cast of Bridget Jones are now?
It's exactly 20 years since Renée Zellweger burst on to our screens as our favourite chain-smoking, big-knicker-wearing 'thirty-something' singleton in Bridget Jones's Diary. And while film sequels Bridget Jones: The Edge Of Reason and Bridget Jones's Baby went on to reveal what happened to hapless Bridget and her love interests Mark Darcy, played by Colin Firth, and Daniel Cleaver, played by Hugh Grant, just where are the original blockbuster's cast now?
Miranda Knox, The Sun, 12th April 2021