Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy Movie Cast, Plot and Everything to Know

Renée Zellweger returns to the role that established a romantic-comedy heroine for the ages.

Plot

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Plot

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, her gynecologist Dr. Rawlings (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 & enthusiastic younger man (Leo Woodall). Now juggling work 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).

Comedy Romance Sequel

Top Cast

The lead cast starring in Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy.

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  Renee Zellweger

  Judy, Heft

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  Hugh Grant

  The Gentlemen, Wonka

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  Emma Thompson

  Last Christmas, Three Bags Full: A Sheep Detective Movie

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  Chiwetel Ejiofor

  Venom: The Last Dance , 2012

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  Leo Woodall

  Nuremberg

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  Isla Fisher

  Dog Man, Now You See Me 3

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  Nico Parker

  How to Train Your Dragon, Dumbo

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  Jim Broadbent

  Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, A Boy Called Christmas

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  Josette Simon

  Tell That to the Winter Sea

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  Leila Farzad

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  Gemma Jones

  Emily, Patrick

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  Sarah Solemani

  Greed

Crew Behind the Film

The Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy behind-the-scenes crew and production team.

The film's director Michael Morris last directed To Leslie and Golden Gate. The film's writer Helen Fielding last wrote Bridget Jones's Baby and Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason.

Director

Michael Morris

Screenwriters

Helen Fielding
Abi Morgan
Dan Mazer

Producers

Tim Bevan
Eric Fellner,Jo Wallett

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Production Details

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Key Facts

• The three previous Bridget Jones films—Bridget Jones’s Diary (2001), Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason (2004) and Bridget Jones’s Baby (2016)—have earned more than $800 million worldwide.
• The film will be released in theaters internationally by Universal Pictures and will stream exclusively on Peacock in the U.S.
• Sarah Solemani, Sally Phillips, Shirley Henderson and James Callis will return to reprise their roles as Bridget’s friends (Variety, 5/29/2024).
• Based on the third “Bridget Jones” novel by Helen Fielding.

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