Renée Zellweger stars as Bridget Jones in "Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy." 12 years would pass before Bridget Jones's Baby, which re-teamed Maguire, Zellweger, and Firth. (Grant's rakish ...

Bridget Jones: Mad About The Boy is a moving adaptation of Helen Fielding's final novel of the same name, which sees Bridget (Renée Zellweger) coping with the untimely death of her husband, Mark ...

Mad About the Boy reunites with Bridget, now a mother of two kids – Billy and Mabel – and also a widow, as her husband, Mark Darcy (Colin Firth), passed away four years ago.

Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy sees the iconic character in a new chapter of life as a 50-something widowed mom of two who gets back into the dating scene. Longtime fans of the franchise based ...

Hugh Grant as Daniel Cleaver in "Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy." Peacock In the film, Daniel, the former playboy, has a teenage son named Enzo (Alessandro Bedetti), whom he doesn't see very often.

As a result, “Mad About the Boy” — the long-gestating film version of which debuts on Peacock in the U.S. Thursday and in U.K. cinemas Friday — explores Bridget’s struggles reentering ...

Sometimes, it’s great to be wrong. “Mad About the Boy” is a charmer, on multiple levels. At its center is Zellweger’s performance; she now wears Bridget as lightly as a breeze.

For director Michael Morris, “Mad About a Boy” marks only his second feature and came his way after a chance meeting with Fielding at a friend’s house. As she described the story of the ...

Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy, then, is about all things in balance. And that includes having Hugh Grant swan in for a hilarious couple of scenes, but no more. He’s the olive in the martini.

Sometimes, it’s great to be wrong. “Mad About the Boy” is a charmer, on multiple levels. At its center is Zellweger’s performance; she now wears Bridget as lightly as a breeze.