Bridget Jones's Diary

Összefoglaló

Single, thirty-something career woman Bridget Jones has taken the best-seller lists by storm—much to her creator's surprise—and entered the English language and psyche. As Newsweek put it, "Ally McBeal better watch her scrawny little back—Bridget Jones is coming to America." Too thin and upwardly mobile, Ally nevertheless shares with Bridget an obsessive, slightly paranoid preoccupation with her love life (or lack thereof), which proves the point: Bridget lives in all of us. She is every woman who has ever looked in the mirror and groaned, resolved to Do Something About It (whether via gym membership, slashing caloric intake, or marshaling Inner Resources), and kicked off the new program in a fattening or embarrassingly public manner...