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Movies that feel like Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason (2004)

If you loved Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason, the closest films we have are The Holiday (2006), The Kissing Booth 2 (2020) and You've Got Mail (1998). All three share Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason's witty and playful feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 6 of the 12 picks below are included with a subscription right now on Netflix, HBO Max and Amazon Prime Video and others, checked against today's data.

Bridget Jones is still dating her new love, barrister Mark Darcy, for a perfect six weeks. However, while on assignment in Thailand with her disreputable ex, Daniel Cleaver, claiming to be reformed, Bridget questions if she has everything she's ever dreamed of having.

πŸ… 27% Rotten Tomatoesβ˜… 6 IMDb β†—TMDB β†—dir. Beeban Kidronwittyplayfulromantictender
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Looking for the series itself? Also in this series: Bridget Jones's Diary (2001) Β· Bridget Jones's Baby (2016)

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The Holiday
2006 Β· dir. Nancy Meyers
πŸ… 51%β˜… 7comedy Β· romance

The same city underneath both: London

Two women, one American and one British, swap homes at Christmastime following bad breakups. Each woman finds romance with a local man but realizes that the imminent return home may end the relationship.

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The Kissing Booth 2
2020 Β· dir. Vince Marcello
πŸ… 29%β˜… 5.7comedy Β· romance

The same mix in both: wit, then play

With college decisions looming, Elle juggles her long-distance romance with Noah, changing relationship with bestie Lee and feelings for a new classmate.

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You've Got Mail
1998 Β· dir. Nora Ephron
πŸ… 69%β˜… 6.7comedy Β· romance

Both keep coming back to the same thing: falling in love

The difference: Reviewed even better

Book superstore magnate Joe Fox and independent book shop owner Kathleen Kelly fall in love in the anonymity of the Internetβ€”both blissfully unaware that he's trying to put her out of business.

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The Family Stone
2005 Β· dir. Thomas Bezucha
πŸ… 52%β˜… 6.3comedy Β· drama Β· romance

The same preoccupation in both: falling in love

The difference: Leans further into drama

An uptight, conservative businesswoman accompanies her boyfriend to his eccentric and outgoing family's annual Christmas celebration and finds that she's a fish out of water in their free-spirited way of life.

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Hitch
2005 Β· dir. Andy Tennant
πŸ… 68%β˜… 6.6comedy Β· drama Β· romance

Common ground: dating

Dating coach Alex 'Hitch' Hitchens mentors a bumbling client, Albert, who hopes to win the heart of the glamorous Allegra Cole. While Albert makes progress, Hitch faces his own romantic setbacks when proven techniques fail to work on Sara Melas, a tabloid reporter digging for dirt on Allegra Cole's love life. When Sara discovers Hitch's connection to Albert – now Allegra's boyfriend – it threatens to destroy both relationships.

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Along Came Polly
2004 Β· dir. John Hamburg
πŸ… 27%β˜… 6comedy Β· romance

Romantic where it counts, tender underneath

Reuben Feffer is a guy who's spent his entire life playing it safe. Polly Prince is irresistible as a free-spirit who lives for the thrill of the moment. When these two comically mismatched souls collide, Reuben's world is turned upside down, as he makes an uproarious attempt to change his life from middle-of-the-road to totally-out-there.

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Notting Hill
1999 Β· dir. Roger Michell
πŸ… 84%β˜… 7.2romance Β· comedy

Comedy with a pulse of wit, in both cases

London bookstore owner William Thacker's quiet life turns upside down when a chance encounter with famous actress Anna Scott sparks an unlikely romance challenged by their vastly different worlds.

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How to Be Single
2016 Β· dir. Christian Ditter
πŸ… 45%β˜… 6.1comedy Β· romance

Playful romance in both cases

New York City is full of lonely hearts seeking the right match, and what Alice, Robin, Lucy, Meg, Tom and David all have in common is the need to learn how to be single in a world filled with ever-evolving definitions of love.

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Little Fockers
2010 Β· dir. Paul Weitz
πŸ… 10%β˜… 5.5comedy Β· romance

Romantic comedy, and it commits to that

It has taken 10 years, two little Fockers with wife Pam and countless hurdles for Greg to finally get in with his tightly wound father-in-law, Jack. After the cash-strapped dad takes a job moonlighting for a drug company, Jack's suspicions about his favorite male nurse come roaring back. When Greg and Pam's entire clan descends for the twins' birthday party, Greg must prove to the skeptical Jack that he's fully capable as the man of the house.

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The Break-Up
2006 Β· dir. Peyton Reed
πŸ… 34%β˜… 5.8romance Β· comedy

Both lean on tenderness more than on romance

Pushed to the breaking-up point after their latest 'why can't you do this one little thing for me?' argument, Brooke calls it quits with her boyfriend Gary. What follows is a hilarious series of remedies, war tactics, overtures and undermining tricks – all encouraged by the former couple's friends and confidantes …and the occasional total stranger! When neither ex is willing to move out of their shared apartment, the only solution is to continue living as hostile roommates until one of them reaches breaking point.

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Shallow Hal
2001 Β· dir. Peter Farrelly
πŸ… 49%β˜… 6comedy Β· drama Β· fantasy

One thread runs through both: dating

After taking his dying father's advice, Hal dates only the embodiments of female physical perfection. But that all changes after Hal has an unexpected run-in with self-help guru Tony Robbins. Intrigued by Hal's shallowness, Robbins hypnotizes him into seeing the beauty that exists even in the least physically appealing women. Hal soon falls for Rosemary, but he doesn't realize that his gorgeous girlfriend is actually a 300-pound-not-so-hottie.

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Meet the Fockers
2004 Β· dir. Jay Roach
πŸ… 38%β˜… 6.4comedy Β· romance

Comedy built on wit, twice over

Hard-to-crack ex-CIA man Jack Byrnes and his wife Dina head for the warmer climes of Florida to meet the parents of their son-in-law-to-be, Greg Focker. Unlike their happily matched offspring, the future in-laws find themselves in a situation of opposites that definitely do not attract.

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