The film is based on a noval of the same name by Helen Fielding, where Bridget Jones (Renee Zellweger) is a 32 year-old who decides to take the time to control her life and start writing in a diary. She daily writes whats going on with her friends, men, exercise, food, sex, and everything else. She now finds herself caught between two men, Daniel Cleaver (Hugh Grant) and Mark Darcy (Colin Firth).