Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason

Continuity mistake: When Bridget's parents pick her up at the airport and all three are in the elevator, Bridget and her father are both about to take a drag off their cigarettes. In the next shot, the cigarettes are nowhere in sight. (01:22:35)

Continuity mistake: In the fountain fight towards the end when the camera cuts back and forward, to and from Darcy, his shirt is buttoned differently each time.

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Continuity mistake: Bridget comes back from the Law Society dinner late at night; it is dark outside. Yet when she comes back home and passes by the stained glass window in her apartment, plenty of light is coming through it. (This shot has been cut from the DVD release.)

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Continuity mistake: When Bridget is in the Thailand prison she is taken out of the cell into another caged area to speak with Mark. As she throws her cigarette out of the cell you can see a line of girls being directed into a cell. After a few minutes of talking to Mark, near the end of the line of girls, a guard is standing next to a girl in a skirt with what looks like yellow sleeves. The camera cuts to Mark, then back to Bridget and the girl walks by again. Later in this scene two guards walk past the same spot behind Bridget twice.

Continuity mistake: When Daniel and Mark are talking to each other after fighting in the fountain, the front of Daniel's hair changes in every shot.

Continuity mistake: When Bridget and Mark leave the dinner party at her parents house it is dark and the car headlights are on. When the scene cuts to inside the car where they are talking, it is light outside. Finally an exterior shot shows the car in daylight.

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Continuity mistake: When Bridget is on drugs in Thailand, she swims in the water and Daniel Cleaver calls out to her from the sand. The level of wetness on his pants changes, it goes from barely past his ankle to just under his knee and back again.

Continuity mistake: At Bridget's mother's party, Bridget sees her perverted uncle coming toward her, holding a glass of wine in each hand. The shot cuts and as she passes, her uncle grabs her butt. Where did the glass of wine go?

Continuity mistake: In the first movie, Bridget's building is standing mostly alone, with no other buildings very close to it (see the first full shot of it: there's nothing on its sides). Yet in this one, we can see several times that there are a lot of tall buildings all around. Same building, different setting.

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Continuity mistake: The part in the middle of the movie where Bridget Jones is texting Mark Darcy that she already misses him, he walks behind her and says, "I miss you too." She is wearing a grey wool outfit jacket and skirt. But when she gets to the office, she is wearing a black cotton-looking skirt.

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Continuity mistake: At the end in the law court offices, when Bridget runs after getting wet, carrying a little bag, this is missing when she goes out to speak to Mark when he asks her to marry him, and there's no sign of her putting it down.

Factual error: Bridget appears to be making her first parachute jump. The mistake is that she would not be permitted under UK law to make her first jump the way she does. She would either have to jump with a static line attached to the aircraft, which opens her parachute automatically. Or if she took an accelerated free fall course, she could free fall but she would do so with two instructors jumping with her to steady her and open her chute if she panicked.

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Mark Darcy: Hello?
Bridget Jones: It's me. Just wondered how you are.
Mark Darcy: I'm fine thanks. Everything all right with you?
Bridget Jones: Fine, though, er, I've just had a rather graphic shag flashback. You do have a genuinely gorgeous bottom.
Mark Darcy: Right, well, thank you. I'm actually with the Mexican Ambassador just at the moment and the Head of Amnesty International and the Under Secretary for Trade and Industry and you're on speakerphone.
Bridget Jones: Oh, right.

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Trivia: In the film, when Bridget has broken up from Darcy, she is telling someone that she wishes he would turn up at her door, preferably dressed in a wet white shirt. This is a reference to when Colin Firth played Mr. Darcy in "Pride and Prejudice" (1995), and the shot of him emerging from a swim wearing a flappy wet white shirt made him a massive sex icon to women in their mid-thirties.

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Question: Was Rebecca a lesbian in the book? I read book 2 a year ago but I cant recall her 'coming out'. Also, did Mark and Bridget get engaged?

Answer: No, Rebecca isn't gay in the book, and Mark and Bridget do not get engaged.

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