Bridget Jones’s Baby

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Bridget Jones’s Baby, the third film in the long running franchise, is a romantic comedy directed by Sharon Maguire, who also directed Bridget Jones’s Diary. The film sees Renée Zellweger, Colin Firth, Jim Broadbent, and Gemma Jones return to their roles while Patrick Dempsey and Emma Thompson join the cast.

After breaking up with Mark Darcy (Firth), Bridget Jones’s (Zellweger) “happily ever after” hasn’t quite gone according to plan. Forty-something and single again, she decides to focus on her job as top news producer and surround herself with old friends and new. For once, Bridget has everything completely under control. What could possibly go wrong? Then Bridget’s fortune takes a turn and she meets a dashing American named Jack Qwant (Dempsey), the suitor who is everything Mr Darcy is not. In an unlikely twist she finds herself pregnant, but with one hitch: Bridget’s uncertain if the baby’s father is her longtime love…or the newfound one from just across the pond.

“One of the reasons the first film worked was not just because of the comedy but because people identified with Bridget’s fear of loneliness,” says Maguire. “It’s a universal fear, and one that’s still a prominent theme in the character’s journey. This is an integral point of access for the audience to empathise with Bridget. The universal undercurrent is that everyone is afraid of being lonely.”

Bridget Jones’s Baby is rated 14A.