Bridget Jones's Baby: Book vs. Movie
Sharon Maguire’s Bridget Jones’s Baby and Helen Fielding’s Bridget Jones’s Baby: The Diaries both arrived in 2016. These related stories follow Bridget through an unexpected pregnancy with two possible fathers.
About the book and the movie
- Author
- Helen Fielding
- Year
- 2016
- Pages
- 240Buy book
- Audiobook length
- 3 hr 37 minGet audiobook
- Narrator
- Morwenna Banks
- Series
- Bridget Jones, book 4
Bridget Jones is pregnant, delighted, and unable to answer the question everyone will eventually ask: is the father Mark Darcy or Daniel Cleaver? As both former lovers become involved, medical appointments and preparations for the birth take on the complications of their long rivalry. Recording the pregnancy in her diary, Bridget negotiates contradictory advice and her own expectations of motherhood without knowing what shape her new family will take.
- Director
- Sharon Maguire
- Writer
- Helen Fielding, Dan Mazer, Emma Thompson
- Year
- 2016
- Runtime
- 2 hr 3 minWatch on Amazon
- Cast
- Renée Zellweger, Colin Firth, Patrick Dempsey, Jim Broadbent
- Genre
- Comedy, Romance
- IMDb
- View on IMDb
Bridget’s forty-third birthday leads to a festival weekend and a night with American businessman Jack Qwant, followed soon afterward by a reunion with Mark Darcy. When she discovers she is pregnant, she cannot tell which encounter led to it. Both men want to support her, turning appointments and preparations into a competition that Bridget must manage alongside a television career under pressure from new bosses.
Other books in this series
- 1
Bridget Jones's DiaryMovie · 2001Details
- Director
- Sharon Maguire
- Writer
- Helen Fielding, Richard Curtis, Andrew Davies
- Year
- 2001
- Runtime
- 1 hr 37 min
- Cast
- Renée Zellweger, Hugh Grant, Colin Firth, Jim Broadbent
London publishing assistant Bridget Jones decides to change her life after another miserable New Year’s gathering. Flirtatious emails with her boss Daniel Cleaver lead to a romance, while her mother keeps pushing her toward the apparently disapproving Mark Darcy. As work embarrassments and family upheavals accumulate, Bridget begins to question Daniel’s account of his history with Mark and the judgments she made when she met them.
- 2
Bridget Jones: The Edge of ReasonMovie · 2004Details
- Director
- Beeban Kidron
- Writer
- Helen Fielding, Richard Curtis, Adam Brooks, Andrew Davies
- Year
- 2004
- Runtime
- 1 hr 44 min
- Cast
- Renée Zellweger, Hugh Grant, Colin Firth, Jim Broadbent
Bridget is finally with Mark Darcy, but his polished professional circle and closeness to a colleague make her doubt that she belongs in his life. Meanwhile, a television job pairs her with Daniel Cleaver for a trip to Thailand, bringing an old temptation back within reach. Attempts to prove she can manage without Mark lead her into a predicament far beyond another disastrous date.
- 3
Bridget Jones: Mad About the BoyMovie · 2025Details
- Director
- Michael Morris
- Writer
- Abi Morgan, Helen Fielding, Dan Mazer
- Year
- 2025
- Runtime
- 2 hr 5 min
- Cast
- Renée Zellweger, Hugh Grant, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Leo Woodall
Four years after Mark’s death, Bridget returns to television work while raising their son and daughter with help from friends and an unexpectedly dependable Daniel Cleaver. A younger man, Roxster, brings romance back into her life, while her son’s science teacher Mr. Wallaker challenges her first impression of him. Between school obligations and new dates, Bridget tries to move forward without making her children feel that their father is being left behind.
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