The 7 Best New Comedies on Netflix in August
thewrap.com“The Gray Man.” Netflix will also be rolling out classic contemporary romantic comedies starring some of TV’s biggest names.As one of the greatest recent romantic comedies, “Bridget Jones’s Diary” is coming back to Netflix this month.
Renée Zellweger’s Bridget Jones has become such an important fixture in popular culture as one of the many reinterpretations of Jane Austen’s “Pride and Prejudice.” As the “imperfect” protagonist, Zellweger develops Bridget from the pages of Helen Fielding’s book onto the screen.
Released in 2001, starring Colin Firth as the “arrogant” Mark Darcy and Hugh Grant as her flirtatious handsome boss, Daniel Cleaver, the ensemble is what rom-com dreams are made of.
Brimming with rom-com tropes from start to finish, Zellweger, Firth and Grant hone in on what made them bonafide movie stars, perfecting their comedic performances. “Bridget Jones’s Diary” makes you appreciate the simplicity of the rom-com premise, and the ease of revisiting stories from classic literature.Receiving a social media resurgence, the Ryan Gosling and Russell Crowe detective comedy “The Nice Guys” has flown under the radar for the past six years, and it seems now fans are finally discovering it.
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