What was considered acceptable in 1995 has changed.įielding seems to have lost the plot where Bridget is concerned. Given the current climate of struggle over sexual equality, she may have badly misjudged her audience. Fielding seems to take it for granted that Bridget would be okay with an overdone running “joke” about her breasts, and that female professionals would giggle like schoolgirls at the blatantly sexist Daniel Cleaver. The sexual politics of this novel are sketchy, as well. Oh goody! Doorbell!” that seemed charming in the first book, when Bridget was a lighthearted 30 something, now seem sad and embarrassing. I mean, I just can’t believe that this is. Observations like, “Everything is terrible. It is difficult to believe that with all her airheadedness, Bridget has held on to the producing job she miraculously landed in the second book. Most feel forced: Bridget runs into Daniel Cleaver in so many awkward situations-at her own engagement party (why in the world would he have been invited?), at a women in literature party-and never seems to remember what an utter cad he was set up to be in previous books. After three previous books, the lifting the weight of disbelief that Bridget could continue to get herself into wacky situations is tough. The rest of the novel is a back and forth as Bridget tries to come to grips with her new reality while simultaneously juggling two expectant fathers, a visit from the queen, and a job that is becoming tenuous.īridget Jones’s Baby begins to go south almost immediately following a rather lovely introduction. Darcy leads to a long evening in his hotel room Darcy’s scuttling off the morning after leads an age-worried Bridget to a comfort shag with Cleaver.Ī few weeks later (and after Bridget learning that two-year-old dolphin-safe condoms aren’t people safe), Bridget comes to a sobering realization: she’s pregnant. Five years on, both men have been married and divorced, and Bridget is still larking about with her singleton friends and sniggering at Smug Marrieds. Unfortunately, the joyful announcement of their upcoming nuptials was scuttled when an inebriated Bridget was found in a compromising position with playboy Daniel Cleaver. Baby takes place around five years after Bridget Jones: Edge of Reason’s romantic reunion between Bridget and the steady but loving Mark Darcy. With this novel, Fielding takes a giant step back in time from Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy, her last Jones outing. Universal Pictures will distribute Bridget Jones’s Baby in North America and select international territories.Readers’ favorite ditz is back in Helen Fielding’s latest, Bridget Jones’s Baby: The Diaries. Longtime collaborators Tim Bevan and Eric Fellner of Working Title Films produce alongside Debra Hayward. In an unlikely twist she finds herself pregnant, but with one hitch…she can only be fifty percent sure of the identity of her baby’s father. The much-anticipated third installment of the Bridget Jones’s franchise welcomes fellow Academy Award® winner Emma Thompson to the cast. What could possibly go wrong? Then her love life takes a turn and Bridget meets a dashing American named Jack (Dempsey), the suitor who is everything Mr. For once, Bridget has everything completely under control.
Fortysomething and single again, she decides to focus on her job as top news producer and surround herself with old friends and new.
Directed by Sharon Maguire (Bridget Jones’s Diary), the new film in the beloved comedy series based on creator Helen Fielding’s heroine finds Bridget unexpectedly expecting. After breaking up with Mark Darcy (Firth), Bridget Jones’s (Zellweger) “happily ever after” hasn’t quite gone according to plan. Oscar® winners Renée Zellweger and Colin Firth are joined by Patrick Dempsey for the next chapter of the world’s favorite singleton in Bridget Jones’s Baby. Here's the official synopsis for the film via Working Title: