Renée zellweger stars as bridget jones, with a starry british cast including colin firth, hugh grant and honor blackman.   meet bridget. She's the 1990s british everywoman single, weight obsessed, and very probably drunk on mid price white wine. Pity poor bridget jones. Her life goes from middling to worse when she embarks on a doomed affair with silver tongued boss daniel cleaver hugh grant. In the background lurks a literal mr darcy colin firth, a seemingly cold lawyer who keeps crossing bridget's path but whose precise intentions seem hard for her to divine. All the while bridget records her lurches across life's highway in the eponymous diary, as an attempt to take control of her tragi comic life. Running time 93 minutes region region 2 release date 2 jun. 2014