A very funny and likeable comedy of manners.
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04/30/01
Bridget Jones' Diary (2001)
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Reviews Counted:150
Fresh:120
Rotten:30
Average Rating:6.8/10
Consensus: Though there was controversy over the choice of casting, Zellweger's Bridget Jones is a sympathetic, likable, funny character, giving this romantic comedy a lot of charm.
Runtime: 1 hr 38 mins
Genre: Comedies
Synopsis: In the screen adaptation of BRIDGET JONES'S DIARY, Helen Fielding's international best-selling phenomenon, documentary filmmaker (and real-life inspiration for the character Shazzer) Sharon Maguire... [More]
Starring: Renée Zellweger, Hugh Grant, Colin Firth, Jim Broadbent
Director: Sharon Maguire
Reviews for Bridget Jones' Diary
There's very little spontaneous life here, and pitiful few real laughs.
04/30/01
Renée is simply radiant here.
04/30/01
It's all supposed to be very charming and funny. Or something.
04/30/01
Witty, warm adaptation of the post-feminst best-seller, and Renee Zellweger is sensational!
04/24/01
Offers a more realistic portrait of the unglamorous woman.
04/23/01
presents us with a completely flawed, yet utterly lovable heroine who is so fundamentally human that it is impossible not to identify with her
04/22/01
Not only that, but it is an adult comedy with no bathroom humor ... Hurray!
04/18/01
Okay, I haven't read the book and I hear it's very good, but based only what I see here the fuss is a mystery, indeed.
04/16/01
What a treat to see a movie starring a real character with real feelings, real problems and real-life issues.
04/16/01
It is gloriously and tear-wellingly funny.
04/16/01
Funny, heartbreaking, inspiring and wonderful.
04/16/01
Inside the frankly sexual, frankly desirous, and frankly pissed off anti-Cosmo girl is a Cosmo girl, just waiting for her happy ending.
04/16/01
The film backhands [Zellweger] by deeming Bridget as imperfect, essentially stripping the character of any pride in her physical appearance.
04/15/01
Balances laughs and heart while still retaining a touch of that rage against the "smug marrieds."
04/15/01
How can you celebrate a movie in which Zellweger doesn't soar but simply avoids disaster?
04/13/01
All power to Firth the actor. He's the compleat Darcy, and he never wavers.
04/13/01
Where the highly likable actress [Zellweger] proves most valuable is in making us adore this insecure, clumsy, contradictory creature.
04/13/01
Surely Bridget herself would sniff at the film's soppy sentimentality.
04/13/01
Let me say in Bridget Jonesy fashion that Zellweger is an irresistible sex goddess, hurrah!!!
04/13/01
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