Academy Award winner Renee Zellweger (Cold Mountain) returns to the screens as Bridget Jones in a film directed by Beeban Kidron. Starring Hugh Grant (About A
Boy) and Colin Firth (Love Actually), BRIDGET JONES: THE EDGE OF REASON is based on Helen Fielding’s no.1 best seller and adapted for screen by Andrew Davies, Helen Fielding, Richard Curtis and Adam Brooks. The film is
produced by John Cavendish, Tim Bevan and Eric Fellner.
In this sequel to BRIDGET JONES'S DIARY, we find Bridget where we left her, blissful and besotted in the arms of gorgeous lawyer Mark Darcy (Colin Firth). Mark is supportive and tolerant of (nearly) all of Bridget's tiny jealousies.
Why wouldn't every woman in London, including Mark's new long-legged, intern, want to lure him away from the plumpish, opinionated, sometimes inappropriate Bridget?
With the entry of the leggy threat, Bridget's pink clouds begin to turn grey as her attacks of self-doubt sorely test her relationship with Darcy. And just when it seems that the waters couldn't get any more choppy, Bridget's former boss, womanising
heartthrob Daniel Cleaver (Hugh Grant), sails into view. Ms. Jones careens from embarrassing situation to romantic misunderstanding, still managing to muddle through in this continuation of the trials and tribulations of the working woman who has
become the symbolic heroine of 'singletons' everywhere.
The film provides a hilarious and touching look at the answer to the question, "What happens after the happy ending?"
BRIDGET JONES: THE EDGE OF REASON sees the return of Bridget’s parents Jim Broadbent (Moulin Rouge) and Gemma Jones (Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets), her best friends Sally Phillips (Smack The Pony), Shirley Henderson
(Intermission) and James Callis, and introduces to the story Jacinda Barrett (The Human Stain) as Rebecca.
Director Beeban Kidron previously won a BAFTA in 1991 for her TV adaptation of Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit. She went on to direct Antonia and Jane and Swept From The Sea. Producer Jonathan Cavendish has been a driving force behind a host of
British box office success including Bridget Jones Diary, Croupier and Gangstar No 1.
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