Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason
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Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason

Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason is a 2004 romantic comedy film directed by Beeban Kidron from a screenplay by Andrew Davies, Helen Fielding, Richard Curtis, and Adam Brooks. It is the sequel to Bridget Jones's Diary (2001) and the second installment in the Bridget Jones film series. based on the 1999 novel of the same name by Fielding. The film stars Renée Zellweger, Hugh Grant, Colin Firth, Jim Broadbent, and Gemma Jones, and follows title character Bridget Jones (Zellweger), who experiences relationship troubles with boyfriend Mark Darcy (Firth) and becomes co-host of a television show with ex-boyfriend Daniel Cleaver (Grant).

Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason premiered at the State Theatre in Sydney, Australia on 28 October 2004 and was released in the United Kingdom and the United States on 12 November. Despite generally negative reviews from critics, the film was a box office success, grossing over $265 million worldwide against a production budget of $40–50 million. Zellweger received a nomination for the Golden Globe Award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture – Comedy or Musical for her performance at the 62nd Golden Globe Awards.

Two sequels, Bridget Jones's Baby and Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy, were released in 2016 and 2025, respectively.

Bridget Jones is ecstatic about her new relationship with Mark Darcy. However, her confidence is shattered when she meets Mark's assistant, the beautiful, slim, quick-witted Rebecca Gillies. At her job on the morning TV show Sit-Up Britain, Bridget crosses paths with her ex-boyfriend, Daniel Cleaver, and is offered a position alongside him in a new travel series. Initially refusing, she declares Daniel is a "deceitful, sexist, disgusting specimen of humanity", but eventually signs on, despite her friends' misgivings.

Bridget is delighted when Mark invites her to his Law Council dinner, believing he will propose afterwards. However, a series of mishaps make the evening a debacle. These culminate in the team trivia quiz: Bridget makes a critical error on a question about Madonna, which Rebecca wins, leaving Bridget thoroughly deflated.

After the dinner, Bridget and Mark argue and she stomps off. He goes to her apartment, apologises, and for the first time he tells her that he loves her. Later that night, he invites her on a mini-break to Lech, Austria. On the slopes, Bridget learns Rebecca is also there with a few other colleagues. She has a pregnancy scare, but after an argument over the upbringing and education of their hypothetical future children, the pregnancy test proves negative. Returning home, Bridget and Mark attend a lunch with their parents, where Bridget is hurt by Mark's dismissal of their prospective marriage.

Overhearing a message from Rebecca on Mark's answering machine, Bridget dissects it with her friends, who advise her to confront him. When she does, he refuses to "dignify the question with an answer", so she breaks up with him. She travels to Thailand with Shazza and Daniel to film The Smooth Guide. Bridget and Daniel visit several exotic locations and, after she unintentially consumes psilocybin mushrooms, they flirtily reconnect, but her trust in him dissipates again when a Thai prostitute he ordered earlier appears, and she realises he has not changed.

Shazza has a fling with the much younger Jed, who gives her a fertility snake bowl as a gift to take back to England, which ends up in Bridget's bag. When security dogs at the airport detect a large stash of cocaine inside it, Bridget is arrested and locked up in a Thai prison cell with almost 50 Thai female inmates. Feeling low and scared but glad at the friendliness of the inmates, she shares relationship advice with the others and teaches them to sing and dance to Madonna's "Like a Virgin".

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