Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy

Name: Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy
Genre: Drama, Comedy, Romance
Released: February 13, 2025
Rating: 72
Cast: Chiwetel Ejiofor, Emma Thompson, Hugh Grant, Leo Woodall, Renée Zellweger

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Peacock | Release Date (Streaming): February 13, 2025

Starring: Chiwetel Ejiofor, Emma Thompson, Hugh Grant, Leo Woodall, Renée Zellweger

Summary: In Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy, Bridget is alone once again, widowed four years ago, when Mark (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 evenIn Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy, Bridget is alone once again, widowed four years ago, when Mark (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). … Expand

Director: Michael Morris

Genre(s): Drama, Comedy, Romance

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i Sarah Carson

Feb 12, 2025

Mad About the Boy is just enormously good fun. Read full review

Caroline Siede

Feb 16, 2025

The script makes all of Bridget’s returning relationships feel wonderfully lived-in, and the film is all the stronger for it. Read full review

Elisabeth Vincentelli

Feb 13, 2025

Almost a quarter of a century in, the Bridget Jones movies are coalescing into an evocative portrayal of a character coming to terms with both her imperfections and her strengths in real time. Read full review

William Bibbiani

Feb 14, 2025

A welcome new patch in the sprawling 'Bridget Jones' tapestry. It’s got all the humor and romance we’ve come to enjoy and all the caring and maturity we’ve come to depend on. Read full review

Fionnuala Halligan

Feb 12, 2025

While its surprising innocence is what makes this film appealing, the franchise is still dependably cheeky thanks largely to Hugh Grant. Read full review

Looper Alistair Ryder

Feb 12, 2025

Nobody comes to a "Bridget Jones" movie for realism, but Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy understands what its predecessors struggled to, recognizing that even the most far-fetched of genre tropes becomes more palatable when pitched as cathartic to its protagonist, and the audience more generally. Read full review

The Guardian Peter Bradshaw

Feb 12, 2025

Though I was willing myself to enjoy this fourth film, about the heroine’s adventure with a younger man, the Bridget Jones series has frankly run out of steam. Read full review

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