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| | Bridget Jones's Diary (2001): Renee Zellweger, Colin Firth, Hugh Grant, Gemma Jones - PopMatters Film Review |
 | | Smart, snarky, and agonizingly self-aware, she records her endlessly witty thoughts, wishes, and observations semi-regularly for a year, over which time she learns something about her desires, her neuroses, and the tyranny of social order. |
 | | Bridget's apparent appeal is that she is so much like so many other young women -- and perhaps men as well -- who feel beset by familial, professional, and cultural ideals advertised on tv and magazine covers. |
 | | Invited by friends of her parents, she must confront not only her own Mum and Dad (Gemma Jones and Jim Broadbent), but also assorted folks from her childhood, including one Mark Darcy (the cleverly cast Colin Firth, who, as Bridget fans already know, was Fielding's model for the character). |
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