Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy

Next date: Wednesday, 08 October 2025 | 10:30 AM

Two-time Academy Award® winner Renée Zellweger returns to the role that established a romantic-comedy heroine for the ages, a woman whose inimitable approach to life and love redefined an entire film genre.

Bridget Jones first blasted onto bookshelves in Helen Fielding's literary phenomenonBridget Jones's Diary, which became a global bestseller and blockbuster film. As a single career woman living in London, Bridget Jones not only introduced the world to her romantic adventures, but added "Singletons", "Smug-Marrieds" and "f---wittage" into the global lexicon. Bridget's ability to triumph despite adversity led her to finally marry top lawyer Mark Darcy and to become the mother of their baby boy. Happiness at last.

But inBridget Jones: Mad About the Boy, 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, and her gynaecologist Dr. Rawlings (Oscar® winner 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 and enthusiastic younger man (White Lotus's Leo Woodall). Now juggling work, home and romance, Bridget grapples with the judgement of the perfect mums at school, worries about Billy as he struggles with the absence of his father, and engages in a series of interactions with her son's rational-to-a-fault science teacher (Oscar® nominee Chiwetel Ejiofor). The returning cast includes Oscar® winner Jim Broadbent and BAFTA winner Gemma Jones as Bridget's parents and, as a new character, Isla Fisher (Now You See Me, The Great Gatsby) as Rebecca, Bridget's neighbour.

Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy is directed by acclaimed filmmaker Michael Morris (To Leslie, Better Call Saul), from a screenplay by BAFTA nominee Helen Fielding, based on her new novel, with contributions from Emmy winner Abi Morgan (The Iron Lady, Eric) and Oscar® nominee Dan Mazer (I Give it A Year, Bridget Jones's Baby).

The film is produced for Working Title by Tim Bevan and Eric Fellner, whose films, includingThe Danish Girl, Darkest Hour, Fargo, Les Misérables andThe Theory of Everything, among others, have earned 14 Academy Awards® and six Best Picture nominations. The film is also produced by Jo Wallet (Wicked Little Letters, Catherine Called Birdy). The film is executive produced by Helen Fielding, Renée Zellweger, Amelia Granger and Sarah-Jane Wright. Working Title has produced all theBridget Jones films.

Universal Pictures, StudioCanal and Miramax present a Working Title production,Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy. The film will be released in theatres internationally by Universal Pictures and will stream exclusively on Peacock in the U.S. The three previousBridget Jones films -Bridget Jones's Diary(2001),Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason(2004) andBridget Jones's Baby(2016) - have earned more than $800 million worldwide.

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Moncrieff Entertainment Centre, 177 Bourbong St, Bundaberg Central, 4670, View Map