Bridget Jones's Diary (film)

• Renée Zellweger: Bridget Jones
• Hugh Grant: Daniel Cleaver
• Colin Firth: Mark Darcy
• Shirley Henderson: Jew
• Sally Phillips: Shazzer
• James Callis: Tom
• Jim Broadbent: Bridget's father
• Gemma Jones: Bridget's mother
• Embeth Davidtz: Natasha
• Celia Imrie: Una Alconbury
• Honor Blackman: Penny Husbands - Bosworth

Bridget Jones - chocolate for breakfast (Original Title: Bridget Jones 's Diary ) is a romantic comedy by director Sharon Maguire from the year 2001 It is the adaptation of the novel by Helen Fielding. . Under the title Bridget Jones - The Edge of Reason, the sequel to the novel was filmed in 2004.

Action

Bridget Jones is frustrated because she is over 30, still single and overweight. So they decided on New Year's, that everything must be different. She begins to keep a diary - decaying for their attempts to quit smoking and to meet a suitable man. The lawyer Mark Darcy, with her ​​mother wants to marry off it seems to be no suitable candidate at first glance. Boring and arrogant, so is Bridget spontaneous judgment, there is also a mutual dislike.

Instead, Bridget falls for her boss, the handsome Hallodri Daniel Cleaver. His bad qualities overlooks Bridget only too happy when he actually casts an eye on them. Gone is the single life, Bridget brimming with confidence. At various small encounters turns out that Mark and Daniel to know from the past and sincerely hate the reason for this is Daniel but not quite correctly.

Bridget pass some misadventures at her job, also gets her parents' marriage in a serious crisis. Her mother leaves her father for someone else. Also, Daniel is interested in other women and cheating Bridget with a colleague at work, which in turn Bridget gets into a depressive phase. After all, opportunities arise to meet Mark closer and see that it still is not as big a bore, quite the opposite. At the end of the year Bridget can confide in her diary that, while it lost the battle against their pounds and smoking, but Mark Darcy has won.

The film is a modern variant of the novel Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen.

Background

• The film was co-produced by the British company " Working Title Films ," the Irish "Little Bird" and the French "Studio Canal ".
• Renee Zellweger took on the role of overweight Bridget Jones to ten kilograms, they herunterhungerte again following the shooting in record time (less than one month).
• Locations were London, the London Stansted Airport, as well as venues in Buckinghamshire, Gloucestershire, Hertfordshire and Worcestershire. The home used for exterior shots of Bridget is in the Beedale Street near London Bridge Station.
• With production costs of about 26 million U.S. dollars of the film in the cinema of the United States played an about 71.5 million U.S. dollars, in the British cinema there were about 41.7 million pounds sterling. In Germany about 3.4 million admissions were counted.

Reviews

According to the lexicon of international film different " kind drawn characters, precise observations of everyday life and an equally hard as warm humor [ ... ] the film from the majority of the genre. " He was a " lively relationship comedy that is told consistently from the perspective of the woman". prisma -online, instead, characterizes the film as " acceptable", but finds that " an exaggerated staging, bad timing and cinematic - not content - embarrassing [ ... ] in this typical romantic comedy enormous [ nerve ] ." For Carsten disc on stern.de the film is "a hateful film with a brilliant actress. The film [ ... ] lives of all those embarrassing moments in the life of [ ... ] woman who does not expect much from life - and gets even less. "

Soundtrack

Awards

Renée Zellweger was nominated in 2002 as Best Actress for an Oscar. Zellweger and the film ( Best Picture - Comedy or Musical) were also nominated in the same year for the Golden Globe Award. The producers won the 2002 BAFTA Award for Best British film; Renée Zellweger, Colin Firth and the writers were also nominated.

Colin Firth won the 2001 European Film Awards; Hugh Grant, Sharon Maguire and the producers were also nominated. The screenwriters and Hugh Grant won the 2002 Evening Standard British Film Award. The film was awarded in 2002 for Best British film of the Empire Award; Renee Zellweger, Hugh Grant, and Sharon Maguire were also nominated for this award.