INTOLERABLE CRUELTY

First of all, as you can predict from the photos, Intolerable Cruelty is a romantic-comedy:) Actually, it is not a different kind of movie; the story is not attractive one. Nevertheless, what makes the movie so much poignant is, I think, because George Clooney and Catherina Zeta-Jones. In the movie, they are a perfect couple:) George Clooney plays Miles Massey. He is a very successful Los Angeles divorce attorney. Nevertheless, he feels very bored and has midlife crisis. (Indeed, I have not known these vocobulary items "midlife crisis". I have learnt it after watching this movie:) ) Miles is very talented in winning cases regardless of the evidence stacked against his clients. The most significant example of that is when Bonnie Donaly(he is a client of Miles) retains his services and bleeds her TV producer husband, Donovan, despite his having caught her entertaining a pool cleaner in a house with no pool. It is interseting, is not it?

Similarly strong evidence weighs against Rex , who hires Miles to represent him when his wife, Marylin (Catherine Zeta-Jones), obtains a video of her husband with a woman in a motel room. In fact, Rex is a man who is a "woman hunter" as we say in Turkish... As the movie goes on, Miles turns the tables on Marylin in court and he presents a surprise witness who exposes her as a gold-digger who set out to marry a wealthy fool. As a result, Marylin comes away with nothing.

In order to take revenge, Marylin goes to Miles' office with her future husband, Howard. Her future husband is an oil tycoon. When she goes to Miles' office, she insists on signing the famous "Massey pre-nup" as proof her love is not related to material concerns. Nevertheless, later, Howard destroys the contract during their wedding as a gesture of his love, I think:).

Six months later when she reappears, the mutual attraction between Marylin and Miles is stronger than ever. From now on, it is consistently funny:) The film often remin me classic comedies like "The Awful Truth" and " Mr. and Mrs. Smith". There are clever dialogues, dark humor in the movie. It stars George Clooney again.The concept" Massey Pre-Nup" is remembeed with him:) Actually, it is the document that virtually assures that rich people will not have to pay their spouse any penny when they get divorced. What is the comic aspect of it is The Massey Pre-Nup is so tight that they spend a whole semester at Harvard Law School teaching it. This is told in a humurous way in the movie. You should watch those scenes:)

Intolerable Cruelty is a movie about rich people and their money. In other words, there is not much of a story here. There are rich lawyers, rich husbands and rich women who marry rich men for their money. There are genuinely funny moments and I liked hearing the Simon and Garfunkel music in the movie, but overall Intolerable Cruelty is a barely tolerable movie.I am sorry to say that. And Catherine Zeta-Jones is so beautiful that I could see why a rich man would eat a pre-nuptial agreement for her sake:) For the most part, however, I found the characters in the movie so unlikable and their motives so greedy that I had a really hard time staying interested in the movie. Sure there is the dialogue (although I don't understand why the line "You fascinate me" is so funny, especially since it is in every single trailer and television commercial and by the time it is shown in the movie it shouldn't be nearly as funny as it could have been - yet my friend still laughed hysterically). Sure there are unique characters - Donovan Donaly is a funny rich guy; Howard Doyle is a funny, annoying rich guy; and I am sure I will be talking about the character called Wheezy Joe for years:)

The only thing that I really got from this movie is that it is better not to be rich:) Nevertheless, much more important thing is that I have learned new vocobularies.

" Cretinous wanker" is one of them. Miles uttered it while he is speaking with one of his friends.His friend asked: " Remember my friend Ollie?, Ollie Olerud? And he said: "Short, cretinous wanker?" Actually, 'cretinous' means a person afflicted with cretinism. Or it can be a slang meaning 'silly'. The second one is more suitable here. 'Wanker" means n offensive word to insult somebody, especially a man, and t show angeror dislike.

Also, I heard this sentence : "His tantrum might have ended this schmo's life and ruined his own." by Donavan. Here, I could not get the meaning of "tantrum" at first. After looking up to the dictionary, I learned that it means a sudden short period of angry, unreasonable behaviour, especially in a child. And, "schmo" means a person who is stupid or foolish n an annoying way.

Bonnie said:> "So that I can massage the kinks out of our testimony." to Miles. Here, I earned two new words. The first one is " massage" which means 'to change facts, figures, etc. in order to make them seem better than they really are.' The second one is "kink". It means 'a bend or twist in something that is usually straight.'

ONE OF THEM IS LYING, SO IS THE OTHER: HOW TO LOSE A GUY IN TEN DAYS

One of them is lying, so is the other...This is a wonderful romantic comedy:) I liked it very much. Actually, before watching it, I understood that there will be a strong love between the couples athe end. And this is just like that in the movie.

The movie tells the relationship of two couples: Andie Anderson (Kate Hudson)and Benjamin Barry(Matthew McConaughey). Neverthelss, this is not as you think. It is a strange relationship. Andie is a writer of editorials for women’s magazine “Composure”. She wants to write what she thinks and believes instead of what her editor thinks and believes will get people to read. One day, Andie comes to the rescue of one of her friends, Linda, who risks her job. And worse, she felt much embarrassment after failing to think of material for the new issue because of a recent breakup. The split of Lİnda and her darling becomes a big inspiration for Andie’s new article in which she will explore the ways in which women scare off their potential suitors. To do so, she decides she needs to find a man, and then she needs to start a relationship with him, and then do all those things that dig under his skin. The dialogues related to this moments are very comic:) I noted the most entertaining one:)

The Boss: So what you gonna do?

Andie :l'm trying to...''And only then will the people of Tajikistan know true and lasting peace.''

The Boss: Andie, it's brilliant.lt's really moving. But it's never going to appearin Composure Magazine.

As the victim, Benjamin is chosen. In fact, Benjamin chooses her. Benjamin is an advertising professional. And what did draw my attention is that Benjamin has an name that starts with the next letter of the alphabet after Andie’s:) I do not if this is a coincidence; nevertheless, it is very interesting, is not it:) As all you can predict and conveniently, he and Andie meet at a bar. Most probably, all of you has understood that she is there to find an victim. Of course Benjamin's goal is not different from Andie's:) He is there to get a coincidence with a girl to fall in love with him. Indeed, if he is able to find such a girl, He will win a bet and get the important new client looking at his firm.

As usual, these two begin a love affair. Actually, Andie's choosing such a way is pointless. If Andie is writing about the “common” things women do to drive men away, she doesn’t need to actually go out and do those things to an unsuspecting man. She could just ask women and—here’s a concept—men what those things are and why they think it gets on men’s bad sides. To do what Andie does is just cruel, really, but it adds that all-important element of conflict—no matter how desperate the attempt to do so may seem. Then there are her questionable techniques for success. At one point, Andie takes Benjamin to a couple’s therapist, who is actually the dumped friend in disguise. The article should never see the light of day because of this. First, I’m sure there’s some kind of law against that degree of fraud. Second, what kind of material can you get from it except falsified and useless. What if such therapy is a valid way of fixing relationships? Third, I hope her aspirations for legitimate writing aren’t true, because I don’t want that kind of journalist around.

Benjamin is also in the wrong way. The key difference, though, is that while Andie is purposely working to devastate a relationship, he is going above and beyond to keep that relationship alive. There’s also the problem with the way in which the bet is made. Benjamin invades a private meeting to try and convince his boss to give him the big important account. In any real world situation, he’d be risking his job or at least be asked to leave immediately so as not to embarrass anyone. But this is the movie world where the boss simply doesn’t care. Maybe it’s because more people could get hurt by what she’s doing. Even, she involves his family in her lie. But ultimately, Andie is worse than Benjamin. Nevertheless, I did not like the way Benjamin eats lobster on their first date. I doubt no woman would allow the possibility of being alone with him:)

The lanuage in the movie is very clear and understandable. I did not have difficulty. I have learned new words. "Rattlesnake" is one of them. I heard the word while Andie was talking with her girlfriends. She said: "A brand-new houseon the road side, and it's made outof rattlesnake hide." Rattlesnake means a poisonous American snake that makes a noise like a rattle with its tail when it is angry or afraid.

Another new word for me is "giddy". Benjamin uses this word while he is talking with his boss and his colleques about the importance of diamons in order to make a woman fall in love with a man." He says: "Selling a diamond to a womanis like making her fall in love. She has to feel giddy,desirous, adventurous,and desperate." "Giddy" means feeling that everything is moving and that you are going to fall.

"Goofy" is the other new word. While Benjamin and Andie is gettting on the motorbike, Benjamin says her: "You get to wearthe goofy-looking helmet." Actually, "goofy" means silly, stupid.

How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days grows more and more tedious as the couple continues to hide their individual secrets and becomes annoying once things between them (and the movie itself) get serious and go beyond the bet and the article. The last series of scenes grows worse because it just continues to set up big scenes where everything could be resolved in the big, dramatic way they’re going to be resolved anyway, but the movie keeps on going. Do not forget to watch it:)

BECOMİNG JANE...

"A woman especially if she has the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she can." -Jane Austen

Anne Hathaway apparently took this quote very much to heart, as her performance manages to perfectly conceal the wit and intelligence that made Austen not just an exceptional woman, but an exceptional author.

"Becoming a woman. Becoming a legend."

"Her own life is her greatest inspiration."

"Between sense and sensibility and pride and prejudice was a life worth writing about."

Actually, this sentences can give you some idea about the movie.:) Becoming Jane is a movie that features some fantastic shots, a middling romance, good performances, and a sleep-inducing pace. I wanted to like the movie. Both Anne Hathaway (as Jane) and James McAvoy (as would-be suitor Tom Lefroy) are good.The supporting cast is also quite good, in particular Lady Gresham in the movie:) What I realized as the most attracting points of the movie are the scenes and the technology usage in some parts The scenes are perfect and the technology is very well used.

Movie begins with the scene on which Jane sitting in a window in the early morning, apparently suffering from a bit of writer's block. She works through this by letting loose her creative juices on a piano, much to the chagrin of the rest of her family so early in the morning. While Jane longs to put creative thought to blank page, her mother wishes she would find a husband and marry into some money. This while her father says she should follow her heart; money will bring comfort, but it will not fill a heart.

Tom Lefroy is a poor young lawyer, with a reliance on an allowance from his uncle. In an effort to help him get his head on straight, he is sent to spend time with relatives in the country. It is during this supposedly head-clearing trip that he encounters Jane.
At first, it is clear that the two are at odds in their outlook. In movie talk, that means they will end up being madly attracted to each other. Anyway, the relationship is not one smiled upon by their respective families. Jane's mother wishes her to marry into wealth (the family was suffering financial woes), while Lefroy's uncle will not consent to him marrying a country girl. Then there is Lady Gresham, a lonely woman who believes she is above everyone when it comes to deciding what is best for all around her. She wishes Jane to accept the pending proposal from her nephew, Mr. Wisley.

It is my understanding that the romance that is depicted is more speculation than anything else. There is a factual basis in the mention of Lefroy in a pair of letters to Jane's older sister, Cassandra (Anna Maxwell Martin), however, the details are not known. This allows screenwriters Kevin Hood and Sarah Williams room to play with what may have happened. They use elements of her novels as the seeds of the story. In a way they reverse engineer her writings to create potential inspirations from her real life. This may be pretty close, as most authors take cues from their real life for their writing. It would not be much of a stretch to assign Austen's narrative elements to pieces of her life in the search to fill in what she was like.

My conflicted feelings are too hard to ignore. I wanted to like the film, and by and large the performances are good. The failure lies in the hands of the screenwriters and on the shoulders of director Julian Jarrold. The screenplay fails to offer anything of real interest, and the direction is straightforward and just a little plain. It is a tale of unfulfilled potential.

MUSIC AND LYRICS..LETS LOOK AT THE LOVE FROM A DIFFERENT PERSPECTIVE..

Firstly, I want to write the most memorable dialogues for me:)
Alex Fletcher: The few syllables you got out were absolutely devastating.
Alex Fletcher: We could even re-pot the ficus.
Alex Fletcher: Just a little bit louder, because this song is intended for humans, okay? Way Back Into Love, take two.
Alex Fletcher: You seem angry - click your pen!
Alex Fletcher: It doesn't have to be perfect. Just spit it out. They're just lyrics.
Sophie Fisher: "Just lyrics"?
Alex Fletcher: Lyrics are important. They're just not as important as melody.

Sophie Fisher: A melody is like seeing someone for the first time. The physical attraction. Sex.

Alex Fletcher: I so get that.

Music & Lyrics" ---------Infact there never could’ve been an aptly named and well timed movie last
valentine’s season. The story is a diffferent one.

On the first scene, who drew my attention immediately was adorable Alex Fletcher (Grant). As I always mention I am a fun of Hugh Grant:) In the movie, he is s throwback pop star from the 80s who’s no longer in demand. Fletcher somewhat manages to earn his loaf doing the odd show here and there for the older crowd. It is survival by the thread and the artist in him yearns for more acclaim. He gets his much awaited breakthrough when reigning music queen Cora Corman ropes him in to write and record a duet with her.

Soon an ecstatic Alex recalls he might be good with music, but as a lyric
ist he’s a deadbeat and hasn’t written a song in years. Now he has a deadline to meet!
Weighed down by this hit or miss opportunity of a lifetime, Fletcher gets help from unexpected quarters: His pretty florist Sophie (Drew) has a knack for words and gladly agrees to do her part for whom she believes to be a talented but unsung hero. And you realize why they say “Behind every successful man is a woman." :)
Romance and realization blooms between the two as he teaches her how to sing and she weaves the magic of words for him. So warm love begins as Fletcher instructs a crooning Sophie
—“Oh please try a bit louder. It’s intended for humans after all!”

But time is short and there are promises to be fulfilled. Fletcher has seen the bottom of the life pile and understandably wants to climb out fast. Sophie, having broken up with her fiancé is still going through a lot of emotional turmoil as she gets more and more involved with her new man.

T his movie may not be in the same league of “Four weddings”, “Love actually” or a “Notting Hill” but it’s no lesser either. A witty, humorous, well scripted, beautiful plot and agreeable character portrayal are some of the many assets observed in this delightful movie. Even better, it never moves focus away from “realism”.
Fabulous performance again from Grant. He’s such a talented and natural actor that you never realize he’s acting! Yes they don’t come any better than him. Though Barrymore does her part and ensures the onscreen chemistry is perfect between the pair, she still is a below average actor. I’m sure someone else should have played Sophie—someone who does justice to Hugh Grant! Yet, I’m not complaining.
Great warm funny romantic movie & enjoyable to the core. That, if you don’t have a cannonball where your heart should be :)

Neverheless, the movie has several flaws.
1)Thechemistry between the lead pair being the first.Hugh and Drew justdon’t have that chemistry that Hugh Grant-Julia Roberts(NottingHill),Jude Law-Cameron Diaz(The Holiday) or even Keanu Reeves-CharlizeTheron(Sweet November)share.Individually they’re good....as a pair theydon’t gel.

2)Secondly the movie has an extremely abrupt ending.Iwanted the director to pack in another 5 mins. for a sequence whereDrew Barrymore finally musters up courage to give it in the face to hercollege professor(Sloan Cates being played by Campbell Scott) who usesher.

3)The romance between the lead characters has not beendeveloped properly except that they sleep once(which I felt was a part that was not needed).

4)The first half of the film is too slow and quite a drag actually.It picks up pace in the second half. Allin all....you can skip it easily....unless you’re a big fan of HughGrant or Drew Barrymore who are damn good albeit individually.

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EVEN AFTERLIFE

What Dreams My Come... This is a perfect film. What drew my sttention firstly was the mystical atmosphere created in the movie. You experiece both this world and the afterlife.

What really amazed me was seeing Robin Williams, as a happily married physician who dies in a freak accident, spends most of the time laughing, crying, or staring into the sky with puppy woe, and Annabella Sciorra, as his artist wife (who commits suicide in response to his death), matches him beam for wet-eyed beam. Actually, the scenes are magnificent too. What I can say about the scenes is that What Dreams May Come presents the afterlife as a metaphysical place. For example, in afterlife, the things that drew my attention most is a pastoral hall of mirrors whose inhabitants must learn, then relearn, the rules.

The first act of "What Dreams May Come" is almost enough to make you not care what may come of the rest of the movie. In the opening half hour, Chris and Annie Nielsen (Williams and Sciorra) lose their two children in an automobile accident. (There's nothing quite like undersize coffins to spell unendurable tragedy.) The family dalmatian has already died. And, much worse, Chris violently perishes while attempting to save someone else's life. As a ghost, he is given a tour of his own wake and funeral, and he then lands inside a bursting landscape. It's no accident that the place resembles a painting. Heaven in the movie is whatever you want it to be, and Chris, in death, has imagined himself inside a gently cascading version of one of his wife's deep-saturated canvases. He slides down hills, dunking himself in a thick blue pond. And then, he emerges with paint clinging to his clothes. He leaps off a cliff and lands with a gentle thud. Paths are painted with purple petals, and there are classical columned structures that look like the ones for Greek Gods as we always read in Greek Mythology.

Towards the mid of the movie, Chris meets an angel guide, Albert, who speaks in pop koans. ''I want to see my children!'' Chris cries. ''When you do,'' replies Albert, ''you will.'' (I think he means, Today is the first day of the rest of your eternity.) For all of the joys of heaven, Chris remains tormented by the family he's lost, and, indeed, the entire picture is haunted by loss. Annie's sinful death consigns her to the film's equally florid vision of hell (a field of heads poking up from the ground, and so on), and it's up to Chris to rescue her to reunite with his twin spirit.

What Dreams May Come is in such a organized way that it practically dissolves as you watch it. The idea of two people sustaining romantic chemistry into the next world may, in truth, be a paradox, at least it was like that for me. Nevertheless, Williams and Sciorra do convince you that they're soul mates in life and death. The two gaze at each other so longingly that it's easy to believe they'd be happy just growing old together.

What Dreams May Come is not very dramatic. I felt as if I was stuck inside a two-hour dream sequence. As Chris and company land on the shore and approach the gates of hell, he begins to recall a time he spent with his son. It was a truly defining moment, when he tells his son that he respects him and would want him by his side even through the fires of hell. For me, this leads to a very important revelation. Chris has not been thinking of Annie, he says, and is losing the bond they share. Does this imply that he can only love one at a time? What I deducted from this scene is that Chris’ love for his son takes away from the love he can share with his wife. And indeed, it seems when he first arrives in heaven he has nearly forgotten his children and only seeks his wife. If Chris and Annie have this incredible bond, what does that say for the rest of us? Is not it:)

DO YOU REALLY LOVE HIM, OR IS THIS JUST ABOUT WINNING?

Michael O'Neal and Julianne Potter have been friends for years but when Michael rings Julianne to tell her he is getting married to a lady called Kimberly Wallace, she finally realizes her true feelingsto him, which are that she loves him. When she gets there , she can't do it so she tries to do everything to get them to break up. Yes, this is a romantic comedy and the plot is very attractive actually.

"Do you really love him? Or is this just about winning?"
"I've seen you a lot more naked that this."
"Yes... but thing's are... different now. "

Here, main characters Michael and Julianne and Kimberly are typically sympathetic characters. Nevertheless, the situation of Jualianne is a bit different I think. I liken Julianne to a tragic hero:) The ones we have learnt in our drama lessons. What I see her is an inability to communicate an unspoken love from a lack of confidence or from a fear of failure. She loves Michael; nevertheless, she cannot express it openly. While she is waiting for him to be together again, she has been informed that the man she loves so muxh will get married. What is much worse is that the one who gives this news is Michael himself. What a pitty, is not it? As a someone who is very sensitive, I felt ver sad at that moments. And memorible quote of her is "Michael... I love you. I've loved you for nine years, I've just been too arrogant and scared to realize it, and... well, now I'm just scared. So, I realize this comes at a very inopportune time but I really have this gigantic favor to ask of you. Choose me. Marry me. Let me make you happy. Oh, that sounds like three favors, doesn't it? "

If I explain the story much more deeply, I can say these: Julianne is a food critic who is called at the last minute to her best friend's wedding. However, her best friend also happens to be an ex-boyfriend, Michael for whom she still has feelings for, despite nine years of having been apart. In the past, they made a pact whereby if neither of them were married by the time they reached the age of 28, they would marry each other. Just prior to Julianne's 28th birthday, Michael rings her in a state of excitement to inform her that he is about to marry Kimmy, whom he has only recently met. She is devastated by Michael's sudden engagement to Kimmy. Kimm is a wealthy and perfectly beautiful architecture student, and rushes off to Chicago.
Actually, what I found I so much ironic in this movie is that alhough the audience is given all the information of the relationships between the main characters, the characters themselves are unaware of these relationships:) For example, once Julianne arrives in Chicago, she begins work on doing everything she can to claim Michael as her own. She is like a home-breaker as we say in Turkish too:). Half the fun is watching Julianne hovering in the background, witnessing her schemes spring into motion and then backfire unexpectedly:) And unfortunately, neither Michael nor Kimmy are the wiser.

George... you're not at all the way I envisioned. With the way Jules went on about you, I thought you would be.... uh...
Gay?
Yes... gay!
I just pretend to be gay!
But why?

This conversation above is between Julianne and George. While watching the movie this conversation s very comic and sweet for me. Julianne decides that this wedding is quite unacceptable, and she sets her mind to breaking up the couple, enlisting the reluctant help of her gay editor, George Downes. George is close friend of Julianne with whom Julianne can discuss her predicament. If there is one character that is outstanding in this movie, it would be George. He is excellent in his role, and very funny at times. His performance is the highlight of the movie. When Julianne's maneuvers fail to produce the desired results, she calls George for help:) He promptly flies out to help her, and in the highlight of the entire movie, George pretends to be Julianne's fiancee.

The scenes on which Kimmy sees Julianne and Michael are kissing each other are very comic too. What makes them s much comic is the conversations between Kimmy and Julianne:) Kimmy says: "You kissed him!At my parents' house. On my wedding day." Julianne: "I love this man, and there is no way I am going to give him up for some big-haired food critic."

Kimmy: "I think I'm going to cry. "

Julianne: "Me too. "

Also, there are other conversations that I will not forget forever:) One of them is between George and Julianne.

George: "When you kissed Michael did he kiss you back? "

Julianne: "What do you mean? We were lip to lip. "

Another is between Michael and Julianne:

Michael: "Kimmy says if you love someone you say it, you say it right then, out loud. Otherwise the moment just..."

Julianne: "Passes you by..."

Michael: "Passes you by..."

Julianne: "It is the duty of the best man to dance with the maid of honor."

Michael: " Dance? You can't dance. When did you learn how to dance?"

Julianne: "I've got moves you've never seen."

But, what really makes My Best Friend's Wedding so much attractive is the quirky humor that permeates the entire movie. Also soundtacks are perfect and go well with the scenes. Dusty Springfield's "Wishin' and Hopin'" is one of the soundteack that I found amazing. Also, while George is pretending to be Julianne's fiancee and telling how they first met, he breaks out into a rendition of Dionne Warwick's "I Say a Little Prayer". He is soon joined by a chorus of Michael's and Kimmy's relatives, seated around the same table. The merriment then spreads to the rest of the restaurant in which they are eating, and soon the entire restaurant is singing along.

Bite the bullet... tell him that you love him.
"My Best Friend's Wedding" is great. It will make you laugh out loud, it will make you feel all warm and fuzzy inside, and it will tug at your heart strings. Will Julianne reveal her true feelings to Michael? Will Michael marry Kimmy or Julianne? In order or find answers to these questions, you should watch this movie. This is the movie you should be watching!

THIS IS AN INTERSTING DAIRY

I absolutely loved this movie. The entire cast played convincing and realistic characters, especially the character of Bridget herself. There was much use of the f-word, but it is important to remember that in parts of England, the word is not considered nearly as offensive. If you are not easily offended and can look over the language and the occasional sex talk, which wasn’t as terrible as many movies, you find yourself entertained beyond belief. I have been laughing for days after seeing it the second time and completely intend to see it again. Colin Firth is one of the best actors I’ve seen in a while, and watching him the second time convinced me only more that he is brilliant. It was also very entertaining to see a realistic fight in a movie for once. I would recommend this movie to anyone who is not easily offended and who enjoys a good laugh.

Renee Zellweger stars as Bridget Jones,is a single 30. Her love life is non-existent, while her consumption of alcohol and her addiction to cigarettes is close to lethal. At the end of her proverbial rope, she attempts to take charge of her life by keeping a diary. In addition to info on the latest "singleton" her mother has tried to set her up with, Mark Darcy notations in her diary include the exact number of cigarettes she's smoked that day and updates on her ever-fluctuating weight.

There are two men in Bridget's life. One of them is a gentleman and a cad. The former insults Bridget at a party and wears an unforgivable sweater. Bridget begins dating her boss, Daniel Cleaver (played by Hugh Grant). On the surface, the two actually seem to have a wonderful relationship, but you just know that they're not going to have a fairy tale ending. Mark Darcy pops in and out of the picture as Bridget and Daniel's relationship develops and then falls apart.

Filmgoers should have fun equating Bridget's relationship trials and tribulations with their own experiences, or that of their friends. There's a little bit of Bridget in almost everyone. Moviegoers who love to laugh out loud without fear of embarrassment will find like-minded audiences attending "Bridget Jones's Diary." "Bridget Jones's Diary" is an intelligent, and humorous dialogue delivered by an outstanding cast. Even "serious" moviegoers can relax and enjoy this delightful film.

I loved this film and immediately wanted to rush out and buy the soundtrack. The songs selected for the soundtrack fit the film perfectly and became a major contributor to the film's overall ambience. Every emotion Bridget goes through is verbalized through the teaming of the scenes with the songs. The competition for Bridget between Firth and Grant may be the stuff of fantasy but Bridget's unerring ability to choose the wrong man is the reality check with which every woman in the audience can identify. And that's what makes this film something you'll want to add to your home video collection next to Four Weddings and a Funeral.

Zellweger's accent is pretty much flawless and the script is extremely funny. The wonderful Jim Broadbent gives a subtle, unsentimental and strangely moving performance as Bridget's dad while Gemma Jones is suitably as her mother. From the first moment, I began laughing around the first frame and didn't really stop. I loved it. some of the sentences of Bridget I caught are: "She's used to run around your lawn... with no clothes on, remember?"

"Perpetua-- slightly senior... and therefore thinks she's in charge of me. Most of the time..."

"lintendto."

"Oh, well,here we go. Trying hard to fight off a vision...of Mum and Auntie Una in fishnet tights"

"Did you fancy Kafir the first time that you saw him?"

"Oh,joy. I am broadcasting genius. Celebrating by cooking birthday feast for close friends. Have sneaking suspicion..."