“Bridget Jones…” the celebrated rom-com protagonist scrawls in her diary in the new film: “it’s time to live.” Bridget is indeed bursting back into life – and back into our lives – in the fourth adaptation of Helen Fielding’s most famous creation, in Bridget Jones: Mad About The Boy.
Springing from the pages of Fielding’s 1996 book – first published as a column in The Independent a year earlier – Bridget and her life first hit the big screen in 2001 in Bridget Jones’s Diary and a funny, sweary, cigarette-smoking, hopeless romantic icon was cemented, and taken to the hearts of many people a similar age and position in life.
