Bridget Jones's Diary (2001)
Director:
Sharon Maguire
Tagline:
« What I’m trying to say, very inarticulately, is that, um, in fact, perhaps despite appearances, I like you, very much. Just as you are. »
Actors:
Bridget Jones
Bridget’s Mum
Una Alconbury
Uncle Geoffrey
Bridget’s Dad
Rating:
(288’022 votes)
(288’022 votes)
Quotes:
« Mark Darcy: I don't think you're an idiot at all. I mean, there are elements of the ridiculous about you. Your mother's pretty interesting. And you really are an appallingly bad public speaker. And, um, you tend to let whatever's in your head come out of your mouth without much consideration of the consequences. I realize when I met you at the turkey curry buffet that I was unforgivably rude and wearing a reindeer jumper that my mother had given me the day before. But the thing is, um… what I'm trying to say, very inarticulately, is that, um, in fact… perhaps despite appearances, I like you. Very much.
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« Bridget: [scoffs] Apart from the smoking and the drinking and the vulgar mother… and the verbal diarrhoea…
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« Mark Darcy: No, I like you very much. Just as you are.
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« Bridget: Wait a minute… nice boys don't kiss like that.
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« Mark Darcy: Oh, yes, they fucking do.
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« Bridget: It is a truth universally acknowledged that when one part of your life starts going okay, another falls spectacularly to pieces.
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Trailer:
Bridget Jones's Diary
Runtime:97 minutes
Plots:
Bridget Jones is determined to improve herself while she looks for love in a year in which she keeps a personal diary.
Bridget Jones (Renée Zellweger) is an average woman struggling against her age, her weight, her job, her lack of a man, and her many imperfections. As a New Year’s Resolution, Bridget decides to take control of her life, starting by keeping a diary in which she will always tell the complete truth. The fireworks begin when her charming though disreputable boss takes an interest in the quirky Miss Jones. Thrown into the mix are Bridget’s band of slightly eccentric friends and a rather disagreeable acquaintance into whom Bridget cannot seem to stop running or help finding quietly attractive.
Can a single woman over thirty, who smokes too much, drinks too much, and has a tendency to say whatever comes into her mind, find her place in the world, and a man? Bridget Jones (Renée Zellweger) is an assistant at a London book publisher, feeling time pass her by. When Daniel Cleaver (Hugh Grant), her boss, starts flirting with her in a vulgar way, she plunges straight in. An affair ensues and she’s heals over head. She also keeps running into Mark Darcy (Colin Firth), a reserved even stiff barrister who has known her since she was a child young enough to frolic naked in his wading pool, seems to look down his nose at her, and hates Cleaver (truth is, Daniel may be a bit of a bounder). What are Bridget’s choices?
