Monday Afternoon @ the Movies: In honor of Jane Austen’s 250th birthday – Bridget Jones’s Diary (2001)

In honor of Jane Austen’s 250^th birthday – Bridget Jones’s Diary (2001) All Women Keep Score… Only The Great Ones Put It In Writing. Based on Helen Fielding’s 1996 novel – a modern retelling of Austen’s Pride and Prejudice – it stars Renée Zellweger, Colin Firth and Hugh Grant, and chronicles a year in the life of Bridget Jones, a thirty-something single working woman living in London. She writes about her career, self-image, vices, family, friends, and romantic relationships. Rated R: 1 hour 37 minutes.