The movie, directed by Michael Morris (“To Leslie”), is based on the 2013 book of the same name by Bridget Jones author Helen Fielding, who co-wrote the screenplay with Abi Morgan and Dan Mazer. Universal Pictures is distributing the film in theaters outside the U.S.

The best kind of visit with an old friend is one that feels like, no matter how much time has passed, you still really, truly know each other. And while I know that, technically speaking, Bridget Jones is not a real person,

I’ll take Renée Zellweger’s nose scrunch wherever I can get it, even in Peacock’s Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy.