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SAME BRIDGET. BRAND NEW DIARY. |
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GOLDEN GLOBE AWARDS 2005 Nominated
Best performance by an actress in a motion
picture - Musical or Comedy |
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FILMING DATES 6 October 2003 - 15 February 2004 |
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| BASED ON "Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason" by Helen Fielding | |||
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RELEASE INFORMATION:
USA – 19 November 2004 |
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RUN TIME: 107 Minutes |
AKA:
Bridget Jones - Am Rande des Wahnsinns - Austria |
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FILMING LOCATIONS: Ealing Studios, London, UK Primrose Hill Park, London, UK Hyde Park, London, UK Serpentine Gallery, Kensington Gardens, London, UK Italian Fountains, Kensington Gardens, London, UK The Globe Pub, Borough, London, UK Borough Market, London, UK Tower Bridge, London, UK Richmond, Surrey, England, UK St. Jame's Church, Shere, Surrey, England, UK Lech, Vrarlberg, Austria Phutket, Thailand Bangkok, Thailand Nakornpathom, Thailand Middle Temple, Inns Of Court, London, UK Institute Of Civil Engineers, London, UK Hanwell Cemetery, London, UK Snowshill, Gloucestershire, England, UK |
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| DIRECTOR: Beeban Kidron | WRITER: Helen Fielding, Andrew Davies, Adam Brooks, Richard Curtis | |
| PRODUCER: Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner, Jonathan Cavendish, Liza Chasin, Debra Hayward, Bernard Bellew | CINEMATOGRAPHER: Adrian Biddle | |
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Cast Shirley Henderson...Jude Sally Phillips... Shazzer James Callis... Tom Jacinda Barrett... Rebecca Jessica Stevenson... Magda Gemma Jones... Pam Jones Jim Broadbent... Colin Jones Catherine Russell... Camilla Celia Imre... Una Alconbury Neil Pearson.... Richard Finch William Gaunt... Lucy Joyce... Constance Morne Botes... Donald Douglas... Mr. Darcy Shirley Dixon ... Mrs. Darcy Andrew
Houghton... Wedding Guest |
Production Companies
Universal Pictures
United International Pictures (UIP)
United International Pictures GmbH (Germany)
Other Companies
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MUSIC: Your Love Is King - Will Young Stop - Jamelia Can't Get You Out Of My Head - Kylie Minogue Super Duper Love (Are You Diggin' On Me?) - Joss Stone Sorry Seems To Be The Hardest Word - Mary J. Blige Misunderstood - Robbie Williams Everlasting Love - Jamie Cullum My Everything - Barry White Crazy In Love - Beyonce I Eat Dinner - Rufus Wainwright & Dido I'm Not In Love - 10CC Nobody Does It Better - Carly Simon Loaded - Primal Scream I Believe In A Thing Called Love - The Darkness Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow - Amy Winehouse Loving You - Minnie Riperton Think - Aretha Franklin Calling - Leona Naess Picking Up The Pieces - Average White Band We'll Be Together - Sting & Annie Lennox Bridget's Theme - Harry Gregson-Williams |
ADDITIONAL MOVIE MUSIC: Magic Moments - Perry Como Pick Up The Pieces - Average White band Let's Get It On - Marvin Gaye Material Girl - Madonna Like A Virgin - Madonna Bangkok - Alex Chilton |
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REVIEW - Diane Web Site Owner
This is Bridget Jones's Diary (part deux). Have some of the critics out there forgotten? Did they even see the original? And do they recall this is a romantic COMEDY? Some of the complaints I've read or heard is that Bridget hasn't changed or matured even after getting Mark Darcy. Pay attention!!! The sequel is only four weeks later even if it came out 3 1/2 years after the first. Wake up. Bridget is insecure. She has low self esteem and naturally when you have obtained the love of the hottest guy in the UK, who wouldn't be in her position and mind-set? So about the movie
I waited with great expectations for this movie longer than I care to think. Ok, so before they even announced it was going to be made. After completion - days have been counted to the opening. Was I happy after the long wait? Not exactly. Some things bothered me even if I knew the movie is only 'based' on the book and I knew the story was changed a great deal. I wish they hadn't. I was anxiously awaiting so much more of Mark and Bridget's relationship. Why he is attracted to her, what he loves about her so much that all can be overlooked, that nothing else matters except being with her the rest of his life. The movie shies away from this sorely and I think it should have been showcased. The re-introduction of Daniel (Hugh Grant) into the fray was totally unnecessary and too long. The Thai line could have left him out. It did in the book. Then again, I suppose if they had done so Rebecca would have to have been the slinky stick insect she was in the novel. Didn't want to see Mark sleeping with Rebecca did we?
I came away decidedly disappointed with Mark's appearances (not Colin) as they had him all stiff and business. Mark's role in the sequel comes across more of a reaction to Bridget than any action on his own and he is not given the opportunity to expound. Yes, he is emotionally repressed, but he is attracted to his opposite, she would help him here. He has to have a fun side they chose not to show. Even lawyers let their hair down and after all he's with a woman he loves deeply. Couldn't they have done something really fun together? Couldn't we have seen him in (tight) jeans and a tee shirt? (Though I didn't mind seeing him in bed several times, but wanted more) Perhaps out with her friends and actually enjoying himself? Most of the scenes are her in his world, not him in hers. It has to work both ways. Doesn't it? And you wanted to know; why didn't he sit next to her at the lawyers soiree and why did he ignore her the whole night? Why didn't he ever invite her to his place? Why didn't we get to see them rolling in the hay like they did with her and Daniel in the original? Questions that will, I assume, remain unanswered.
Bridget was - well - Bridget. I'd be jealous too if someone told me about Rebecca and I saw her and Mark in the situations she did. Then you wonder if they were so in love why she had no clue to his work schedules or meetings. Or were they showing us that she was still so unsure of it all that she didn't trust what he told her? But I suppose you can only do so much in a movie and have to draw your own opinions.
The best scenes? Oh, anything Colin was in. Anything that showcased his range - holding back, unable to respond when she breaks up with him. Then the meeting in the Thai jail. Do you see it? I sure do. He's been down this road before. He's being stoic and businesslike, but starts to lose composure because he really loves her. Then he catches himself because he's so hurt - wounded - by her; thinking she went back to Daniel. All in the eyes. If you didn't notice, watch the whole scene more closely the next time. It happens three times in a matter of a few minutes. I enjoyed all the bedroom scenes, though I am more than sure some more of these were cut. Stuff with Bridget and Mark in her apartment or spending quality time together before the break-up. Where's the pizza scene? Where's the trailer bedroom scene? Where's the babysitting scene? Constance is credited, but cut from the film. Maybe we can hope on the DVD?
Again, as in the first, if you know the story - there are P&P equivalents. The fight between Mark & Bridget? Oh I could equate it to either the verbal sparring at Netherfield or the first proposal. Getting her out of jail and staying in the background is definitely the equivalent of procuring Lydia's wedding but here I would liked to have seen a scene with Mark 'fighting' to get her out, just a flashback or two as in P&P. Then, when the singletons tell her about what Mark did, well, that's reading aunt Gardiner's letter and realizing he must still love her. Bridget references Mark coming to her in a wet white shirt. We all know what that is, don't we? And, of course, Mark ends up soaking wet in that fountain.
So did I like the movie? Yes. Was it worth the wait? Yes. Is is better than the first one? I don't think so, but it's close. And the ending? Anti-climatic, but does set-up for another if that's possible. Will I go again? Probably more times than I want to tell. I LOVE THIS MOVIE |
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LA WEEKLY BRIDGET JONES: THE EDGE OF REASON Reprehensible, ideologically indefensible and bags of guilty fun, this delightfully low sequel to Bridget Jones’ Diary finds our insecure, compulsively candid heroine (Renée Zellweger, plus 50 pounds) shuttling once again between the tall, dark, handsome and uptight Mark Darcy (Colin Firth) and the tall, dark, handsome and irredeemably feckless Daniel Cleaver (Hugh Grant, looking ever so slightly and poignantly older). The fact that Bridget has already snagged Darcy leaves a howling plot void, which is resolved, sort of, by shipping her off to exotic parts from which she must be rescued, though not before scads of physical comedy, as funny as it is obvious, have allowed Zellweger — porked out, pigeon-toed and sorely in need of hair therapy — to make a gallant fool of herself. A host of good supporting performances and an improvised dogfight between Grant and Firth add to the goodies. Beeban Kidron, of whom we have seen neither hide nor hair since To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar, directs with verve and flair from a pert screenplay in which Richard Curtis, among others, had a hand. If you liked Love Actually, you’ll love this too, another small jewel in the crown of unabashedly commercial, cheerfully middlebrow, eminently exportable British fluff. (Ella Taylor) |
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ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY
When it comes to Asking the Critic, questions about movies
that are better than the books on which they're based rank right up there
with questions about actors who are better than the junk they're stuck in.
For a long time, The Bridges of Madison County has been my favorite
example of literature improved off the page. But now I've found a more
timely example: The modest charms of Bridget
Jones: The Edge of Reason are a triumph of performance, production, and
adaptation over the empty-calorie dither of its source material. |
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Posted on Fri,
Nov. 12, 2004 |
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