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Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason is a 2004 romantic comedy film directed by Beeban Kidron and written by Adam Brooks, Richard Curtis, Andrew Davies, and Helen Fielding, based on Fielding's 1999 novel of the same name. It stars Renée Zellweger as Bridget Jones, Colin Firth as Mark Darcy, and Hugh Grant as Daniel clever.

The sequel to Bridget Jones's Diary (2001), the film was released in the United Kingdom on 12 November 2004 and in the United States a week later on 19 November 2004 to generally negative reviews from critics. Despite this, the film was a box office success, grossing over $260 million worldwide.

Plot

Bridget Jones (Renée Zellweger) is ecstatic about her new relationship with Mark Darcy (Colin Firth). However, Bridget's confidence is shattered when she meets Mark's assistant, the beautiful, slim, quick-witted Rebecca Gillies (Jacinda Barrett). At her job on TV morning show Sit-Up Britain, Bridget crosses paths with her ex, Daniel Cleaver (Hugh Grant), and is offered a position alongside Cleaver in a new travel series. Bridget initially refuses, declaring Daniel a "deceitful, sexist, disgusting specimen of humanity," but eventually signs on, despite her friends' misgivings.

Bridget is delighted when Mark invites her to his "Law Council Dinner," believing he will propose afterward. However, a series of fashion/cosmetic mishaps make the evening a debacle, culminating in the team trivia quiz: Bridget makes a critical error on a question about Madonna, which Rebecca Gillies wins, leaving Bridget thoroughly deflated.

After the dinner, Mark and Bridget argue and she leaves in a huff. Mark goes to Bridget's apartment, apologizes, and tells her he loves her for the first time. Later that night, Mark invites Bridget on a ski holiday to Vorarlberg, Austria. On the slopes, she learns Rebecca recommended the vacation spot. Bridget suspects that she is pregnant, but after an argument over the upbringing and education of their future children, the pregnancy test proves negative. Returning home, Bridget and Mark attend a lunch with their parents, where Bridget is hurt by Mark’s dismissal of their prospective marriage.

Bridget overhears a suspicious message from Rebecca on Mark's answering machine and dissects it with her friends, who advise her to confront him; Bridget does, Mark refuses "to dignify the question with an answer,” and Bridget breaks up with him. She travels to Thailand with her friend, Shazzer (Sally Phillips) and Daniel Cleaver to film "The Smooth Guide." Bridget and Daniel visit several exotic locations and flirtily reconnect, but Bridget’s trust in Daniel is again demolished by the arrival of a prostitute he ordered, and she realizes he has not changed his boorish ways.

Shazzer has a fling with the much younger Jed (Paul Nicholls), who gives her a gift to take back to Britain, which winds up in Bridget's bag. When security dogs at the airport detect a large stash of cocaine inside the gift, Bridget is arrested and sent to a Thai prison. Behind bars, Bridget shares relationship advice with the other inmates and teaches them to sing and dance to Madonna's "Like a Virgin." Mark arrives to tell Bridget that her release has been put in motion. After confirming Jed as the true perpetrator and that Bridget "spent the night” with Daniel Cleaver, he declares that her sex life does not interest him; Bridget does not correct his presumption, and he departs. Back in Britain, Mark confronts Daniel for abandoning Bridget in Thailand, and they fight outside an art gallery in Kensington Gardens. Daniel swears off Bridget for good and sarcastically suggests to Mark, "Why don't you just marry her?"

Bridget arrives at Heathrow Airport as an international human rights celebrity. She is greeted by her parents, who have been busy planning their vow renewal ceremony. At home, Bridget is surprised by her friends, who reveal that Mark personally tracked down the drug trafficker Jed, secured his custody and extradition, and forced him to admit Bridget's innocence. Hopeful that Mark still loves her, Bridget immediately runs to his house. She finds Rebecca there and assumes she is romantically involved with Mark, but Rebecca reveals that she is actually infatuated with Bridget and kisses her; though flattered, Bridget politely turns her down.

Bridget confronts Mark at his legal chambers and asks him to take her back. Mark proposes to Bridget and she accepts. The film ends with Bridget's parents renewing their vows and Bridget catching the bouquet.

Cast

Production

During the fight scene between Daniel and Mark, it was for the most part not choreographed, instead, the actors were simply asked to fight each other any way they could. At one point in the film (where Bridget and Shazzer are at the Thai airport), Bridget indulges in a fantasy of Mark coming out of water in a wet white shirt, just like Colin Firth did in the 1995 BBC version of Pride and Prejudice. The poem that Daniel quotes from while passing Ko Panyi is the story of "Phra Aphai Mani" by Sunthorn Phu.

One of the more significant differences between the novel and the film is that the film makes no mention of Bridget's fascination with the BBC television version of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice (Colin Firth starred in that production.)

Reception

Although the film received mostly negative reviews from critics, it was voted Evening Standard Readers' Film of 2004, was in the shortlist for the Orange Film of the Year award at 2005 BAFTAs and the second interpretation of Bridget gained Zellweger another Golden Globe nomination and the People's Choice Award as Favorite Leading Lady of 2005.{{citation needed|date=December 2018}}

The film holds a 27% rating on Rotten Tomatoes, with the consensus stating: "Edge of Reason is a predictable continuation to the Bridget Jones story, with too much slapstick and silliness."^[3]

Box office

Sequel

In July 2009, the BBC reported that a third film was in the early stages of production. On 1 March 2011 it was reported that both Renée Zellweger and Colin Firth had shown interest in reprising their roles.^[7] An announcement was made on August 11, 2011 that a third film was greenlit by Universal Pictures, Miramax and Working Title.^[8]

Colin Firth talked to The Chicago Sun Times in April 2013. "Unfortunately, it might be a bit of a long wait," he said. "I wouldn't say that it's completely dead in the water, but the way it's going, you might be seeing Bridget Jones's granddaughter's story being told by the time we get there."^[9]

In an interview in October 2014, Hugh Grant mentioned an existing script for a sequel, however also expressed his dislike for it and that he would not star in a third film.^[10] Filming officially began on 2 October 2015. The movie opened on 16 September 2016.

Home media

Soundtrack

References

1. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.bbfc.co.uk/releases/bridget-jones-edge-reason|title=Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason (15)|work=British Board of Film Classification|date=22 October 2004|accessdate=31 July 2018}}
2. ^{{cite web|author=Sandra Gregory|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/film/3626945/Bridget-Jones-stole-my-story.html|title=Bridget Jones stole my story|work=The Daily Telegraph|date=1 November 2004|accessdate=31 July 2018}}
3. ^{{rotten-tomatoes|bridget_jones_the_edge_of_reason|Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason}}
4. ^Weekend Box Office Results for November 12–14, 2004 – Box Office Mojo Retrieved 31 July 2018.
5. ^Weekend Box Office Results for November 19–21, 2004 Box Office Mojo Retrieved 31 July 2018.
6. ^{{mojo title|bridgetjones2|Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason}}
7. ^{{cite news|author=Uddin, Zakia|url=http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/movies/news/a306473/zellweger-agrees-to-bridget-jones-3.html|title=Zellweger 'agrees to Bridget Jones 3'|date=1 March 2011|work=Digital Spy|accessdate=31 July 2018}}
8. ^{{cite news|url=http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=81003|title=Bridget Jones 3 Officially Planned|author=Lesnick, Silas|publisher=ComingSoon.net|date=12 August 2011|accessdate=31 July 2018}}
9. ^{{cite news|url=http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/movies/news/a476715/colin-firth-on-bridget-jones-3-film-there-might-be-a-long-wait.html|author=Harp, Justin|title=Collin Firth on Bridget Jones 3|work=Digital Spy|date=26 April 2013|accessdate=31 July 2018}}
10. ^{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oia3lufC8WA&t=107|title=Hugh Grant interview: on Bridget Jones 3 and The Rewrite|date=13 October 2014|accessdate=31 July 2018|publisher=YouTube}}

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