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Old 02-10-25 | 01:58 PM
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Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy (2025, D: Morris) S: Zellweger




Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy is streaming February 13 on Peacock.

Two-time Academy Award® winner Renée Zellweger returns to the role that established a romantic-comedy heroine for the ages, a woman whose inimitable approach to life and love redefined an entire film genre. 

Bridget Jones first blasted onto bookshelves in Helen Fielding’s literary phenomenon Bridget Jones’s Diary, which became a global bestseller and a blockbuster film. As a single career woman living in London, Bridget Jones not only introduced the world to her romantic adventures, but added “Singletons,” “Smug-Marrieds” and “f---wittage” into the global lexicon. Bridget’s ability to triumph despite adversity led her to finally marry top lawyer Mark Darcy and to become the mother of their baby boy. Happiness at last.

But in Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy, Bridget is alone once again, widowed four years ago, when Mark (Oscar® winner Colin Firth) was killed on a humanitarian mission in the Sudan. She’s now a single mother to 9-year-old Billy and 4-year-old Mabel, and is stuck in a state of emotional limbo, raising her children with help from her loyal friends and even her former lover, Daniel Cleaver (Hugh Grant).

Pressured by her Urban Family —Shazzer, Jude and Tom, her work colleague Miranda, her mother, and her gynecologist Dr. Rawlings (Oscar® winner Emma Thompson) — to forge a new path toward life and love, Bridget goes back to work and even tries out the dating apps, where she’s soon pursued by a dreamy and enthusiastic younger man (White Lotus’s Leo Woodall). Now juggling work, home and romance, Bridget grapples with the judgment of the perfect mums at school, worries about Billy as he struggles with the absence of his father, and engages in a series of awkward interactions with her son’s rational-to-a-fault science teacher (Oscar® nominee Chiwetel Ejiofor). The returning cast includes Oscar® winner Jim Broadbent and BAFTA winner Gemma Jones as Bridget’s parents and, as a new character, Isla Fisher (Now You See Me, The Great Gatsby) as Rebecca, Bridget’s neighbor.

Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy is directed by acclaimed filmmaker Michael Morris (To Leslie, Better Call Saul), from a screenplay by BAFTA nominee Helen Fielding, based on her novel, with contributions from Emmy winner Abi Morgan (The Iron Lady, Eric) and Oscar® nominee Dan Mazer (I Give it A Year, Bridget Jones’s Baby).

The film is produced for Working Title by Tim Bevan and Eric Fellner, whose films, including The Danish Girl, Darkest Hour, Fargo, Les Misérables and The Theory of Everything, among others, have earned 14 Academy Awards® and six Best Picture nominations. The film is also produced by Jo Wallett (Wicked Little Letters, Catherine Called Birdy). The film is executive produced by Helen Fielding, Renée Zellweger, Amelia Granger and Sarah-Jane Wright. Working Title has produced all the Bridget Jones films.

Universal Pictures and StudioCanal and Miramax present a Working Title production, Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy. The film will be released in theaters internationally by Universal Pictures and will stream exclusively on Peacock in the U.S.
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This been kept under secret wraps? Never heard of it until today.
Old 02-10-25 | 05:13 PM
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Originally Posted by Dr. DVD
This been kept under secret wraps? Never heard of it until today.
No, it was announced last year.
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I've known about it for a while. But since it seemed nobody cared about the third one (Bridget Jones's Baby), I didn't think anyone anywhere could care about a legacy sequel nearly 10 years later.

Edit : They made her a WIDOW? Yeesh.
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I've known about it for a while. But since it seemed nobody cared about the third one (Bridget Jones's Baby), I didn't think anyone anywhere could care about a legacy sequel nearly 10 years later.

Edit : They made her a WIDOW? Yeesh.
The Bridget Jones films have made significantly less money with each release in the U.S. only. Which is why Universal decided to bypass theaters this time around. The third Jones movie was the biggest hit in the series in the U.K. And this one is already breaking box-office records. See below. And yes, she's now a widow per the book. I enjoyed all the films and looking forward to this one too.

https://www.theguardian.com/film/202...jones-an-oscar
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Old 02-11-25 | 02:15 PM
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Re: Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy (2025, D: Morris) S: Zellweger

Bummer its going to be a streamer on a channel I don't subscribe to...
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Solid reviews. What a shame Universal skipped theaters in the U.S.

https://www.timeout.com/movies/bridg...oy-review-2025

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/mo...er-1236131377/

https://variety.com/2025/film/review...er-1236296617/
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Re: Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy (2025, D: Morris) S: Zellweger

Well, it's something fun to watch at home. I don't mind that.

But with the reviews for Captain America being so bad, this might have done well in theaters this weekend.
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The last film was a dud in the US. The series made most of its money overseas, where this one will still get a theatrical release.
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Re: Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy (2025, D: Morris) S: Zellweger

Yeah, discussed four posts above yours
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Watching this tomorrow.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/films/0/...nee-zellweger/
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Just finished. While it had it's classic signature moments here and there, this is the most mature "Bridget Jones" in the series. It's funny, but more touching. And very moving. Wonderful movie. Solid 8.5/10 rating.
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Re: Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy (2025, D: Morris) S: Zellweger

I liked the movie, though I think I saw the others once each, so I didn’t know the people other than Zellwegger, Grant, and Firth.
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https://news.sky.com/story/bridget-j...ecord-13311455

I don't understand the "hit and miss reviews" comment. And then they pointed out it's at 86% on RT. That's mostly hit. What were they expecting, 100%?
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Old 02-24-25 | 01:55 PM
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https://collider.com/bridget-jones-m...ce-71-million/
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Re: Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy (2025, D: Morris) S: Zellweger

Wife and I just finished watching and it was really well done. Loved seeing all the characters from the previous films popping up. We also appreciated the evolution of her friendship with Daniel. The party at the end was quite touching as was how they wrapped it all up. Really would have been nice to see this in theaters.
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