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26th February 2025
Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy - what's behind the trend of films featuring older women in romances with young men?
Vintage is the new black! Lately, the trend is to love early 2000s romantic comedies. How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days, The Princess Diaries, 13 Going on 30, Legally Blonde, 10 Things I Hate About You… and of course, the subject of this piece—our beloved Bridget Jones.This comedy is an adaptation of a hit column written by journalist Helen Fielding for The Independent in 1995. Its success was so immense that, in 1996, she turned it into a novel. Five years later, the first film in the franchise was...