Join the gang and learn English while watching movies! On Sunday, June 19, we will watch Bridget Jones' Diary.
Movie Synopsis: Bridget Jones graduated from Bangor University. She is a single, thirty-three-year-old woman who has a monotonous life. She has some bad habits - smoking and drinking too much - but she annually writes her New Year's resolutions in her diary, determined to stop smoking, drink no more than fourteen alcohol units a week, and eat more pulses. In the two novels and screen adaptations, Bridget's mother is bored with her life as a housewife in the country and leaves Bridget's father. Bridget repeatedly flirts with her boss, Daniel Cleaver. A successful barrister named Mark Darcy also keeps popping into Bridget's life, being extremely awkward, and sometimes coming off a bit rude. After Bridget and Mark reach an understanding of each other and find a sort of happiness together, she gains some self-esteem and cuts down on her cigarette consumption. However, Bridget's obsession with self-help books plus several misunderstandings cannot keep the couple together forever. Read more and get vocabulary notes here. We watched in January: "Inception", "Sherlock Holmes", "What Women Want", Love Actually" We watched in November: "Finding Neverland", "21" We watched in October: "Corpse Bride", "The Yes Men Fix the World"
We watched in September: "Green Mile", "Billy Elliot", "Fool's Gold", "The Ghost Writer", "Dorian Gray" We watched in August: "Some Like It Hot", "Breakfast at Tiffany's", "Big Fish", “The Gangs of New York” We watched in June: "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest", "The Boat That Rocked", "My House in Umbria", "The Fifth Element".
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