Hugh Grant as Daniel Cleaver in “Bridget Jones.” “Bridget Jones’s Diary” first hit theaters in 2001 based on the book of the same name by author Helen Fielding.

Bridget Jones, like many early 2000s comedies, ... Bridget answers the phone while she's in bed with Daniel, candidly sharing her situation before discovering that it is her mother calling.

A few years back Helen Fielding, who wrote Bridget Jones’s Diary, gave a reading in New York.She was reading from the new Bridget Jones installment Mad About the Boy, and I knew I needed to see ...

SPOILER ALERT: This piece contains spoilers for Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy. Though Renee Zellweger’s Bridget Jones has yet another major choice to navigate when it comes to love in the ...

Grant also explained his theory as to why the Bridget Jones franchise has an enduring appeal, and it's kind of brilliant. "In a nutshell, I say it is the antidote to Instagram," said Grant ...

Hugh Grant says he wept reading the script for Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy. Grant, 64, reprises his role as dastardly Daniel Cleaver in the fourth Bridget Jones movie, which hits theaters on ...

Bridget Jones is not a character. She’s the 3 a.m. single-girl id made flesh. (Plus an extra 20 pounds.) She’s the dumbest thing you ever said, the most blinkered, self-involved thought you ...

That said, I wish “Mad About the Boy” took more aggressive fun in plugging Bridget into the fads and tropes of the present day. The movie, by design, has a sentimental middle-aged softness to it.

Hugh Grant hasn't seen Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy yet, but just reading the script got him emotional. "I haven't seen it, but I, obviously, I know the script and I'm a harsh judge of script ...

Bridget Jones, however, is someone who has been shaped by that fixation. You can see that in the way she berates herself because she does not match an unrealistic, media-set standard. By the third ...

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'Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy ... and she’s in bed with her sleeping children. Shee said, ‘What I have is what I love most in the world, just the three of us,’” Morris said.