Renée Zellweger returns to the role that established her as romantic-comedy heroine for the ages in the first trailer for Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy.
The fourth film adapted from Helen Fielding’s literary phenomenon Bridget Jones’s Diary, which has grossed a combined $760 million at the box-office, Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy is directed by acclaimed filmmaker Michael Morris (Better Call Saul), from a screenplay by the BAFTA-nominated author, and stars Colin Firth, Hugh Grant, Emma Thompson, Leo Woodall, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Jim Broadbent, Gemma Jones, and Isla Fisher. Check out the trailer below…
In Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy, Bridget is alone once again, widowed four years ago, when Mark (Oscar winner Colin Firth) was killed on a humanitarian mission in the Sudan. She’s now a single mother to 9-year-old Billy and 4-year-old Mabel, and is stuck in a state of emotional limbo, raising her children with help from her loyal friends and even her former lover, Daniel Cleaver (Hugh Grant).
Pressured by her Urban Family —Shazzer, Jude and Tom, her work colleague Miranda, her mother, and her gynaecologist Dr. Rawlings (Oscar winner Emma Thompson) — to forge a new path toward life and love, Bridget goes back to work and even tries out the dating apps, where she’s soon pursued by a dreamy and enthusiastic younger man (White Lotus’s Leo Woodall). Now juggling work, home and romance, Bridget grapples with the judgment of the perfect mums at school, worries about Billy as he struggles with the absence of his father, and engages in a series of awkward interactions with her son’s rational-to-a-fault science teacher (Chiwetel Ejiofor). The returning cast includes Oscar winner Jim Broadbent and BAFTA winner Gemma Jones as Bridget’s parents and, as a new character, Isla Fisher (Now You See Me, The Great Gatsby) as Rebecca, Bridget’s neighbour.
Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy is streaming February 13 on Peacock and in UK cinemas on 14th February.
Originally published November 12, 2024. Updated November 30, 2024.
