Bridget chides Mark for being mean and he leaves, but after an insensitive appeal by Daniel, she also rejects him emphatically. Mark wins the battle and knocks Daniel out. They end up in a nearby restaurant and finally smash through the window, landing on the street. Mark leaves the party, but returns to face Daniel.
Daniel drunkenly visits, temporarily claiming Bridget's attention.
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He later helps Bridget to achieve an exclusive TV interview in a landmark legal case.īridget begins to develop feelings for Mark, and he comes to her rescue at her birthday dinner party at her flat in Borough, which she is disastrously attempting to cater for herself. During the party, Mark privately confesses to Bridget that, despite her faults, he likes her "just the way she is". Daniel makes a desperate attempt to convince Bridget to stay, only for her to retort that she would "rather have a job wiping Saddam Hussein's arse."īridget has a long-standing invitation to a friend's dinner party, where she is the only single person and distraught to see Mark and Natasha seated at the table. Bridget begins to search for a new job and after landing a job in television, quits her role at the publishing house without giving notice. However, his dubious character becomes clearer to Bridget when she returns home from the party to find Daniel with another woman, a colleague of his, Lara ( Lisa Barbuscia), and Bridget cuts ties with him soon after. Daniel, having to spend the day working, is not able to attend and sends Bridget to the party alone. They spend the day before the party at a country house hotel, where Mark and Natasha are also staying. Daniel informs Bridget of their falling-out, telling her that Mark broke their friendship by sleeping with his fiancée.īridget is invited to a family party, and she takes Daniel along as her "plus one". Bridget learns from Daniel that he and Mark have a history and, as a result, hate each other. Bridget leaves with Daniel and they have dinner, despite the fact that he is a notorious womaniser with a questionable personality, of which Bridget is aware. Right.īridget and Daniel begin to flirt heavily at work, first over email, ahead of an important book launch, at which Bridget bumps into Mark and his glamorous but haughty colleague Natasha ( Embeth Davidtz). She starts her own diary, which covers all her attempts to stop smoking, lose weight and find her Mr. After overhearing Mark grumble to his mother about her attempts to set him up with "a verbally incontinent spinster who smokes like a chimney, drinks like a fish and dresses like her mother", she decides to turn her life around. After their initial encounter, Mark thinks that Bridget is a fool and vulgar and Bridget thinks that he is arrogant and rude, and is disgusted by his novelty Christmas jumper. At a New Year party hosted by her parents, she re-encounters Mark Darcy ( Colin Firth), the barrister son of her parents' friends. She works in publicity at a book publishing company in London where her main focus is fantasising about her boss, Daniel Cleaver ( Hugh Grant). Plotīridget Jones ( Renée Zellweger) is 32 years old, single, very accident-prone and worried about her weight. A sequel, Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason, was released in 2004 and another sequel, Bridget Jones's Baby, was released in 2016. Zellweger was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress for her role in the film. The film premiered on 4 April 2001 in the UK and was released to theatres on 13 April 2001 simultaneously in the UK and in the US.īridget Jones's Diary received positive reviews and was a commercial success, grossing over $280 million worldwide. Production began in May 2000 and ended in August 2000, and took place largely on location in London and the Home Counties. The adaptation stars Renée Zellweger as Bridget, Hugh Grant as the caddish Daniel Cleaver, and Colin Firth as Bridget's "true love", Mark Darcy. It is based on Fielding's novel of the same name, which is a reinterpretation of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice.
Bridget Jones's Diary is a 2001 British-American romantic comedy film directed by Sharon Maguire and written by Richard Curtis, Andrew Davies, and Helen Fielding.