A Brit girl flirts with her boss and lands him only to find out he's a philandering jerk. Renée Zellweger stars as Bridget with Hugh Grant as the boss man.
Eventually she comes to her senses and takes up with Colin Firth, but things go a bit wrong and they have a disagreement.
Lots of funny scenes of a single girl trying to manage a modern career. Bits of it smack of desperation, but that's funny I guess. I find it sad. Still worth a watch.
Library: VHS; Bandon, Coos Bay, Coquille & Powers. DVD; Coquille & North Bend.
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0243155/
Amazon: Bridget Jones's Diary (Collector's Edition)
This musical features folks you don't immediately associate with singing. Ambitious singer/dancers Renée Zellweger and Catherine Zeta-Jones find themselves on death row together. They team up to try and make their cases go away with the help of lawyer Richard Gere.
Look for an outstanding performance from Queen Latifah as the prison matron. A lot of times when they take a successful play to film, they lose something. I think they managed to keep this Oscar winner just as entertaining as the stage version.
Library: Bandon, Dora, Coos Bay, Coquille, Dora & North Bend.
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0299658/
Amazon: Chicago (Widescreen Edition)
This classic Henrik Ibsen tale features Anthony Hopkins as Torvald Helmer a controlling husband who's wife Nora borrows money from a scurrilous character to save her husband's life. We see the couple now doing well and stable and Torvald wanting to fire the lender for being of low character. Nora, Claire Bloom, pleads with him to give the man his job back, but control freak Torvald refuses.
The money lender writes a letter threatening to expose Nora's borrowing and Torvald over reacts and hits her. He tells her she's unfit to be a mother. The money lender takes pity on her after a friend of hers asks him to and suddenly Torvald loves her again.
She realizes he's too erratic for her and packs her bags and she sets out ot find herself. She leaves her husband bewildered. I just love the strong confident woman she becomes.
Library: SWOCC
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0069987/
Amazon:A Doll's House
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