FilmSeries· 2001· Comedy

Bridget Jones

by Sharon Maguire

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Bridget Jones

Book · 1996

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The films adapt Helen Fielding's novels one for one, and Fielding co-wrote the first two screenplays herself. The casting made the lineage explicit: Colin Firth plays Mark Darcy, having played Darcy in the 1995 Pride and Prejudice that Fielding's novel is openly rewriting.

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Bridget Jones

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Bridget Jones is determined to improve herself while she looks for love in a year in which she keeps a personal diary. It is based on the 1996 novel of the same name by Fielding, which was itself a loose adaptation of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice. The film stars Renée Zellweger as Bridget Jones, a 32-year-old British single woman who writes a diary, which focuses on the things she wishes to happen in her life. However, her life changes when two men vie for her affection, portrayed by Colin Firth and Hugh Grant. Jim Broadbent and Gemma Jones appear in supporting roles.