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New Zealand Listener
|February 22-28, 2025
The fourth film in the hit romcom series arrives with familiar charms and fresh blokes. But it would be a good place to stop.
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Twenty-four years after Texan actress Renée Zellweger first hit the big time as a 30-something London singleton obsessed with recording her weight, alcohol consumption and bad romantic entanglements, her plummy-voiced Brit is back again.
Now, Bridget Jones is 51, a mother of two and widowed after Colin Firth's Mark Darcy was killed fighting for human rights in the Sudan.
We are reunited with everyone's favourite hapless Sloane four years after Mark's death, as she struggles to brush her hair or change out of her PJs before walking cute little Billy and Mabel to their private school.
This story is from the February 22-28, 2025 edition of New Zealand Listener.
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