Bridget Jones's Diary (Collector's Edition) |  | Director: Sharon Maguire
Actors: Renée Zellweger, Colin Firth, Gemma Jones, Celia Imrie, James Faulkner
Studio: Miramax
Category: DVD
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Rating:  514 reviews
Sales Rank: 2102
Format: Closed-captioned, Collector's Edition, Color, Dolby, DVD, Widescreen, NTSC
Languages: English (Original Language), Spanish (Subtitled)
Rating: R (Restricted)
Region: 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Number Of Discs: 1
Running Time: 97 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6
MPN: DISD38356D
UPC: 786936263398
EAN: 0786936263398
ASIN: B0002W4SWC
Theatrical Release Date: April 13, 2001
Release Date: November 9, 2004
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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Featuring a blowzy, winningly inept size-12 heroine, Bridget Jones's Diary is a fetching adaptation of Helen Fielding's runaway bestseller, grittier than Ally McBeal but sweeter than Sex and the City. The normally sylphlike Renée Zellweger (Nurse Betty, Me, Myself and Irene) wolfed pasta to gain poundage to play "singleton" Bridget, a London-based publicist who divides her free time between binge eating in front of the TV, downing Chardonnay with her friends, and updating the diary in which she records her negligible weight fluctuations and romantic misadventures of the year. Things start off badly at Christmas when her mother tries to set her up with seemingly standoffish lawyer Mark Darcy (Colin Firth), whom Bridget accidentally overhears dissing her. Instead she embarks on a disastrous liaison with her raffish boss, Daniel Cleaver (Hugh Grant, infinitely more likeable when he's playing a baddie instead of his patented tongue-tied fops). Eventually, Bridget comes to wonder if she's let her pride prejudice her against the surprisingly attractive Mr. Darcy. If the plot sounds familiar, that's because Fielding's novel was itself a retelling of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice, whose romantic male lead is also named Mr. Darcy. An extra ironic poke in the ribs is added by the casting of Firth, who played Austen's haughty hero in the acclaimed BBC adaptation of Austen's novel. First-time director Sharon Maguire directs with confident comic zest, while Zellweger twinkles charmingly, fearlessly baring her cellulite and pulling off a spot-on English accent. Like Four Weddings and a Funeral and Notting Hill (both of which were written by this film's coscreenwriter, Richard Curtis), Bridget Jones's stock-in-trade is a very English self-deprecating sense of humor, a mild suspicion of Americans (especially if they're thin and successful), and a subtly expressed analysis of thirtysomething fears about growing up and becoming a "smug married." The whole is, as Bridget would say, v. good. --Leslie Felperin
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 love the story, but hate the talk December 24, 2009
Jerry Blankenship
1 out of 4 found this review helpful
why they have to take a great movie like this and stick such nasty in it I will never understand.....makes me sick, I am giving it away...it has F this to much for me......
 A classic! December 3, 2009
Old Dog Blue (Washington, DC)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
An absolute classic! I quote more one-liners from this film than I even realize! BJD II was stink-o, so stick with the original and you'll have hours and hours of laughs about the follies of thirtysomething singlehood.
 Predictable but painless November 26, 2009
R. Swanson (New Mexico)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I actually watched the sequel several years ago and disliked it. I heard, though that this, the original, was quite good so I watched it. It was better than the sequel but nothing to brag about. The cast is first-rate but the plot is so silly and predictable that it doesn't give them much to work with. Renee Zelwegger is pretty good as the pleasingly plumped-up Bridget who is in her 30's and without a man in her life. She falls for the scoundrel Hugh Grant, who is always quite convincing as the charming cad and ignores the decent, square-jawed but boring Colin Firth. We know the ending from the beginning so there's nothing to do but sit back and enjoy the show, if you enjoy this kind of thing.
Zellwegger is surely a game actress and gives every role her all, if it's the floozy dancer in Chicago (her best role, in my opinion) or the poor Southerner in Lone Mountain that won her an Oscar. She has an innate likability, too, that makes watching her for two hours bearable, even in this silly story. I like Colin Firth a lot and regret that there was not more of his presence here. The parents were shown to be awfully stupid and hardly believable.
Silly, but there are a lot of worse films around.
Great movie!! November 12, 2009
S. Gyuris (Ca, USA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This movie is incredibly funny. I've watched it several times and every time I find a new line that I didn't catch before that cracks me up. Love the performances also. Great actors, great story-line. Great for collectors.
 Bridget Jones's Diary... Strange what Hollywood Considers Fat or Funny October 22, 2009
Julian Kennedy (St Pete Florida)
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
Bridget Jones's Diary: 4 out of 10: There have been a great number of woman's films that have successfully crossed over to the mainstream. Sleepless in Seattle, Jerry Maguire and Aliens are three classic examples of "chick flicks" that men can watch with their ladies, enjoy the film, and still get credit for being a sensitive guy that likes what she likes.
Bridget Jones's Diary tries to come across as a frothy crossover comedy. You know one of those estrogen flicks that Hugh Grant now does since Tom Hanks was shipped off to make "important films". Diary however doesn't successfully crossover. It's a real chick flick through and through.
The thirty something equivalent of Sixteen Candles. In fact it seems to have basically the same plot and characters as that John Hughes eighties perennial. Instead of our sixteen-year-old ugly duckling we have a thirty two year old overweight alcoholic with virtually no social skills. And instead of one impossible cute and rich suitor we now have two impossible rich and handsome suitors that fight over our protagonist.
Now I have always felt Renee Zellweger was easy on the eyes and talented to boot. As for the extra weight she put on,(An act that the media with a straight face called "brave") well let's just say she wears it well. Her character however is such a horrible deceptive person that one really wonders why either man would want her for anything more than a quick shag.
Like those other lovable raging alcoholics of the silver screen say Arthur or The McKenzie Brothers two hours of screen time is one thing but day-to-day living is another. One really wonders how long either man would really stick around with Miss Jones? (A: Till he got tired of shagging her.)
One last question. What's is with the music? It's Raining Men? Ain't No Mountain High Enough? Does the CIA use this soundtrack on prisoners at Abu Ghraib? Doesn't the Geneva Convention mean anything?
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