Universal Pictures has released an official trailer for Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy, the upcoming fourth installment in the beloved rom-com franchise. Let’s take a look.
Based on the 2013 novel by Helen Fielding, Mad About the Boy features returning stars Renée Zellweger, Hugh Grant, Colin Firth, and Emma Thompson, reprising their respective roles as Bridget Jones, Daniel Cleaver, Mark Darcy, and Doctor Rawlings from previous installments, with Chiwetel Ejiofor, Leo Woodall, Isla Fisher, Josette Simon, Nico Parker, and Leila Farzad joining the cast.
Plot Synopsis:
Renée Zellweger returns to the role that established a romantic-comedy heroine for the ages, a woman whose inimitable approach to life and love redefined an entire film genre. As a single career woman living in London, Bridget Jones not only introduced the world to her romantic adventures, but added “Singletons,” “Smug-Marrieds” and “f—wittage” into the global lexicon. Bridget’s ability to triumph despite adversity led her to finally marry top lawyer Mark Darcy and to become the mother of their baby boy. Happiness at last.
But in Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy, Bridget is alone once again, widowed four years ago, when Mark (Colin Firth) was killed on a humanitarian mission in the Sudan. She’s now a single mother to 9-year-old Billy and 4-year-old Mabel, and is stuck in a state of emotional limbo, raising her children with help from her loyal friends and even her former lover, Daniel Cleaver (Hugh Grant).
Pressured by her Urban Family —Shazzer, Jude and Tom, her work colleague Miranda, her mother, and her gynecologist Dr. Rawlings (Emma Thompson) — to forge a new path toward life and love, Bridget goes back to work and even tries out the dating apps, where she’s soon pursued by a dreamy and enthusiastic younger man (Leo Woodall). Now juggling work, home and romance, Bridget grapples with the judgment of the perfect mums at school, worries about Billy as he struggles with the absence of his father, and engages in a series of awkward interactions with her son’s rational-to-a-fault science teacher (Chiwetel Ejiofor).
Directed by Michael Morris, Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy begins streaming on Peacock on February 13, 2025, ahead of its theatrical release internationally on February 14, 2025.
What do you screenagers think? Interested in seeing this at all?
