Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason picks up four weeks after the original film left off, with Bridget (Renée Zellweger) emotionally satisfied at long last with Mark Darcy (Colin Firth), her barrister boyfriend. Stability in Bridget’s life, however, quickly becomes a contradiction in terms. Though Mark is openly supportive of Bridget’s eccentricities -- and there are many -- she is nonetheless threatened by Mark’s young, nubile intern, not to mention irked at finding out that he is, among other less desirable