Bridget Jones: Edge of Reason

Date: 2004
Director: Beeban Kidron
Production Company: Universal Pictures, Studio Canal, Miramax Films

Stars: Renée Zellweger, Colin Firth, Hugh Grant, Sally Phillips, Jim Broadbent, Gemma Jones, Jacinda Barrett, Shirley Henderson, James Callis
Location(s): Buckinghamshire, Gloucestershire, Hertfordshire, London, Surrey, Thailand, Vorarlberg (Austria)

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Storyline:

Taking up from Bridget Jones’ Diary, our heroine has doubts about the love of her life, looks to a former love and takes a holiday in hell. SJ

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  • 15 Apr 2022

The Snowshill Arms in shot.

Kevin Hedley provides this shot without the snow but more cars. (SJ)

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  • 14 Apr 2022

And Zellweger, (not a double), is back at the family home, Hall's Piece, Snowshill, Gloucestershire. She's carrying different bags but the shot is remarkably similar to 'Bridget Jones's Diary'.

Kevin Hedley's shot for the first film will do for this one as well. (SJ)

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Zellweger and Firth do "The Sound of Music" on Primrose Hill, NW3.

The skyline changes annually. Here with Renzo Piano's 72 storey The Shard, the tallest building in the EU (2013) in the centre. SJ

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Stocker's Farm, Stocker's Farm Road near Rickmansworth, Hertfordshire which also features in ‘Children of Men’, 'Dark Places', 'The Lair of the White Worm', ‘28 Weeks Later’, 'Never Let Me Go (2010)' and ‘The Other Side’.

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What a lot of indoors smoking: those were the days! Phillips, Henderson and Callis in the Light Bar and Restaurant, 233 Shoreditch High Street, London E2, according to imdb.

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  • 23 Jan 2013

Zellweger at Firth's in Richmond. 9 King's Road.

Oh dear, horrible light contrast, even beyond photoshop. SJ

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  • 27 Feb 2013

Zellweger back outside the flat seen in the first Bridget Jones on Bedale Street, SE1.

Still survives despite a lot of changes in this area of Borough Market. SJ

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Firth and Zellweger in Bedale Street.

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Zellweger at Piccadilly Circus, W1.

Now. SJ

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  • 14 Feb 2013

The old GLC on Belvedere Road, SE1. The exterior for the general knowledge quiz.

Now. SJ

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An interior included as those windows look rather nice. This is the venue of the law quiz with the last round on pop music.

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Firth and Zellweger walk home. Outside City Hall with Tower Bridge in the background.

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  • 27 Feb 2013

Firth on Bedale Street, heading west next to Zellweger's door.

Looking the other way. SJ

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  • 27 Feb 2013

Close-up.

The intercom's gone. SJ

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Now in Lech, Austria.

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Lech or maybe Cortina d'Ampezzo, as IMDb suggests.

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As above. Zellweger or a stunt double.

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Arlberg Hotel in Lech, Vorarlberg.

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Zelllweger skis into Strolz. Ambros Stroltz pioneered boot-fitting in Lech and Daniel is now in charge of this family business.

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Firth at a church.

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  • 27 Feb 2013

A virtuoso shot of happy couples in every lit window, apart from Zellweger's that is. The Globe Tavern, SE1.

This catches the left bit of the "then." SJ

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Firth at the churchyard, probably the same as above.

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  • 11 Apr 2013

Zellweger on Tower Bridge heading south to SE1.

Now by David Ahern on Tower Bridge.

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Zellweger at Debenham's, 334-348 Oxford Street, W1

Now with new cladding placed in 2014. SJ

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The action shifts to Thailand.

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Grant in Bangkok, Thailand.

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Zellweger and Grant enjoy the Phuket area.

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Phillips and Zellweger on the beach.

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Grant listens with interest to Zellweger.

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The jail.

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  • 05 Jul 2013

Grant and Firth slug it out again. Kensington Gardens.

The Italian Fountains area on the north side, which the film disguised as the entrance to the Serpentine Gallery, which, unlike here, does not have a fountain in front of it. SJ

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Seen in 'The Astonished Heart', 'Carve Her Name With Pride' and many others in London Movie Guide.

That's the trouble with trying to do it from memory. I should be in front of the (turned off) fountain. SJ

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Wet fountain fighting.

Can't have been a particularly pleasant scene to film. SJ

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Bedale Street again.

Some repaired plaster under the window seems to have fallen out but otherwise all good. SJ

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9 King's Road again.

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  • 04 May 2015

Top of Giltspur Street where it meets West Smithfield, EC1.

The telephone box has been shifted to the right (off-camera). SJ

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Reverse pov as Zellweger is soaked.

New pavement, new trees, how swiftly things change. Looking towards the Smithfield car-park more recently seen in Skyfall. SJ

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A stately interior. Middle Temple, EC4?

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  • 25 Jan 2013

Now at Shere, Surrey, a popular cute village filming location.

Was the tree in the foreground a prop or has it been cut down? SJ

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  • 25 Jan 2013

Outside the church of St James's grounds.

The wet not quite as romantic as the snow. SJ

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A different angle to the above. The village and its church appear in numerous films including ‘The Ruling Class’, ‘Dick Barton Special Agent’, 'Bachelor of Hearts', 'My Wife's Lodger', 'Reunion at Fairborough', 'The Late Edwina Black', 'Small Town Story', 'On the Fiddle', 'Trouble with Eve', 'The Earth Dies Screaming' and 'Monster of Terror'.

Now. SJ

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  • 25 Jan 2013

Let it not be said that we don't treat you. This is in the dvd extras: a cut scene of incompetent riding in Aldbury, Hertfordshire which is also seen in 'Crossplot', 'Stop Press Girl', 'Inquest' and 'The Dirty Dozen'.

Now. SJ

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  • 25 May 2023

A church, not the one in Aldbury or Shere... in fact in Buckinghamshire, now discovered after a 10 year wait. Click the date.

St Nicholas church in Nether Winchendon, Buckinghamshire. This was found and photographed by Sean Clarke who remembers the Hollywood invasion passing through his home village of Cuddington. (SJ)

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Another extra shot...Identified by Sean C. as Nether Winchendon House just south-east of St Nicholas Church seen above. (SJ)

Sean took this from the gates so this shot is enhanced as much as I dare. (SJ)

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  • 04 Aug 2017

The Renoir, Hunter Street, WC1.

Now rebranded as The Curzon Bloomsbury. It is on the east side of the Brunswick Centre. SJ