Bridget Jones - The Edge of Reason

Renée Zellweger Director: Beeban Kidron Beeban Kidron

Overview

Based on author Helen Fielding's sequel to Bridget Jones's Diary, Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason picks up four weeks after the original film left off, with Bridget (Renée Zellweger) emotionally satisfied at long last with Mark Darcy (Colin Firth), her barrister boyfriend. Stability in Bridget's life, however, quickly becomes a contradiction in terms. Though Mark is openly supportive of Bridget's eccentricities -- and there are many -- she is nonetheless threatened by Mark's young, nubile intern, not to mention irked at finding out that he is, among other less desirable qualities in her eyes, a conservative voter. Complicating issues further is the reentrance of her ex-lover, Daniel Cleaver (Hugh Grant), whom Jones, perhaps mistakenly, thought she had finally gotten over. Before long, the situation escalates into another series of embarrassing circumstances for Bridget, who is faced once again with a crippling feeling of self-doubt and has only her diary and friends to combat it. ~ Tracie Cooper

Product Details

Release Date:	10/16/2018
UPC:	0191329070154
Original Release:	2004
Rating:	R
Source:	Universal Studios
Time:	1:48:00

Special Features

Deleted Scenes; Mark & Bridget Forever?; Bridget Jones Interviews Colin Firth ; Lonely London; The Big Fight; Feature Commentary with Director Beeban Kidron

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits

Renée Zellweger	Bridget Jones
Hugh Grant	Daniel Cleaver
Colin Firth	Mark Darcy
Jim Broadbent	Bridget's Dad
Gemma Jones	Bridget's Mum
Jacinda Barrett	Rebecca
James Callis	Tom
Shirley Henderson	Jude
Sally Phillips	Shazzer
Neil Pearson	Richard Finch
Jessica Stevenson	Magda
Paul Nicholls	Jed
Catherine Russell	Camilla
Celia Imre	Una
James Faulkner	Uncle Geoffrey
Celia Imrie	Una Alconbury
Campbell Graham	Hamish
Joan Blackham	Shirley
Dominic McHale	Bernard
Donald Douglas	Admiral Darcy
Shirley Dixon	Mrs. Darcy
Alex Fixsen	Cameraman in Aircraft
David Cann	Cameraman in Field
Rosalind Halstead	Receptionist
Luis Soto	Mexican Ambassador
Tom Brooke	Production Assistant
Alba Fleming Furlan	Girl in Rome
Lucy Robinson	Janey
David Verrey	Giles Benwick
Mark Tandy	Derek
Stephanie O'Rourke	Sexy P.A.
Jeremy Paxman	Himself
Flaminia Cinque	Scary Corset Lady
Trevor Fox	Hairdresser
Alex Jennings	Horatio
Ian McNeice	Quizmaster
Phillip Gardner	Toastmaster
Wolf Kahler	Commentator
Lilo Bauer	Chemist
Hans Flaschberger	Chemist Customer
Sabina Michael	Chemist Customer
Paul Humpoletz	Chemist Customer
Joe Caffrey	Homeless Man
David Auker	Clive - Man on Plane
Patrick Baladi	Steward
Rong Kaomulkadee	Thai Chef
Ting-Ting Hu	Thai Prostitute
Michelle Lee	Thai Police Woman
Hon Ping Tang	Thai Jail Guard
Suthas Bhoopongsa	Dudwani
Jason Watkins	Charlie Parker-Knowles
Vee Vimolmal	Phrao
Melissa Ashworth	Thai Jail Girl
Pui Fan Lee	Thai Jail Girl
Oliver Chris	Director in Gallery
Sam Hazeldine	Journalist
Amanda Haberland	Journalist
Neil Dudgeon	Taxi Driver
Peter Gordon	Porter
Sam Beazley	Very Old Man
Simon Andreu Trobat	Mr. Santiago
Arturo Venegas	Mr. Hernandez
Frances Jeater	Miss Gallagher
Christopher Adamson	Man in Corridor
Richard Braine	Vicar

Technical Credits

Adam Brooks

Richard Curtis

Andrew Davies

Helen Fielding

Beeban Kidron	Director
Nick Angel	Musical Direction/Supervision
Tim Bevan	Producer
Adrian Biddle	Cinematographer
Stuart Brisdon	Special Effects Supervisor
Adam Brooks	Screenwriter
Jonathan Cavendish	Producer
Liza Chasin	Executive Producer
Richard Curtis	Screenwriter
Andrew Davies	Screenwriter
Eric Fellner	Producer
Helen Fielding	Screenwriter
Nick Foley	Sound/Sound Designer
Glenn Freemantle	Sound/Sound Designer
Harry Gregson-Williams	Score Composer
Michelle Guish	Casting
Greg Hayden	Editor
Simon Hayes	Sound/Sound Designer
Debra Hayward	Executive Producer
Paul Inglis	Art Director
Gemma Jackson	Production Designer
Stacy Mann	Casting
Richard Styles	Asst. Director
Jany Temime	Costumes/Costume Designer

Editorial Reviews

Renée Zellweger packed on the pounds once again to play the pleasantly plump protagonist of Helen Fielding's bestselling novels in this delightful sequel. Some viewers didn't find Edge of Reason quite as funny as Bridget Jones's Diary, perhaps because Bridget's fate -- romantically speaking -- is never in much doubt. However, the sequel is richer in incident and offers Zellweger's character more expansive opportunities to make a fool of herself. The story opens with Bridget working on a popular TV show while she's happily involved with diplomat Mark Darcy (Colin Firth). But after they have a fight over practically nothing, she impetuously decides to accept an assignment that takes her to Thailand, where she runs into former employer and erstwhile cad Daniel Cleaver (Hugh Grant) and winds up in prison on a drug-smuggling charge. Even in her most hapless, dimwitted moments Bridget remains an appealing young woman, thanks largely to Zellweger's skill in making her believable and sympathetic. She isn't the first person who's made a wrong turn on the road to love, and even at her most foolish she retains an endearingly girlish charm. Grant and Firth repeat their characterizations from the first film with uncanny fidelity, although we personally think that getting them into another brawl over Bridget is a bit of a stretch. But this is Zellweger's movie all the way: she makes us love her even when she's embarrassing herself horribly, and that takes some doing. A lesser actress would never be able to pull it off with such aplomb.

Barnes & Noble - Ed Hulse

Helen Fielding had the sense to be self-deprecating in the title of her second Bridget Jones novel, and director Beeban Kidron considers that her license to concoct a film that's altogether unreasonable indeed. Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason once again makes hay of the title character's tendency to go fanny up, flogging the slapstick until it's as wet as Renée Zellweger after repeated puddle drenchings. Zellweger gamely regained the pounds for another go-around, but the audience was less eager this time, leaving the film lost in the 2004 holiday shuffle. The embarrassments heaped upon Jones have taken on a perfunctory quality by this second installment. She continually finds herself stammering in front of Darcy's coterie of international dignitaries, and when the out-of-control Jones haplessly skis into the midst of a professional downhill race, it's hack-level stuff. However, there is a point at which the absurdity (a bizarre second-act plot twist that shouldn't be ruined) goes to such lengths, the joke seems intentional, enough for the film to rebound toward something more sublime. Colin Firth and Hugh Grant again play the candidates for Bridget's affections, though Firth's character is so stiff and unsmiling, the audience almost roots for Grant's lothario to win their inevitable tussle in a public fountain.

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