Spoilers ahead for Bridget Jones: Mad About The Boy.
Praise the rom-com overlords, Bridget Jones is back for one final chaotic chapter.
Bridget Jones: Mad About The Boy is a moving adaptation of Helen Fielding’s final novel of the same name, which sees Bridget (Renée Zellweger) coping with the untimely death of her husband, Mark Darcy (Colin Firth). Four years a widow, she embarks on a new relationship with a younger man, 29-year-old Roxster (One Day and The White Lotus star Leo Woodall), putting her on a new path as she navigates being a widow and single mother.
After meeting Roxster — while stuck halfway up a tree on London’s Hampstead Heath — Bridget approaches her dating life with more of a confident, liberated attitude than in previous films. While giving us full circle moments to the original Bridget Jones’s Diary and its sequels, Mad About the Boy flips certain iconic moments on their head, with Bridget recognising modern shifts in cultural conversations around sex, dating, and relationships. For one, it’s deeply refreshing to see how Bridget Jones functions in a relationship featuring an age gap — he’s 29, she’s in her 50s.
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