Support for NPR and the following message come from Bowling Branch.

Change your sleep with the softness of Bowlin Branch's 100% organic cotton sheets.

Feel the difference with 15% off your first set of sheets at bowl and branch.com with code NPR.

Exclusions apply. See site for details.

For more than 20 years on screen, Bridget Jones has been making her way through dating, working, having a baby, and even ending up in jail. Now in the fourth film in the series,

Bridget is dealing with a whole new phase of life and a new pair of possible

love interests. I'm Linda Holmes, and today we're talking about Bridget Jones, Mad About the Boy,

on Pop Culture Happy Hour from NPR. This message comes from Wise, the app for doing things in other currencies.

Sending or spending money abroad, hidden fees may be taking a cut.

With Wise, you can convert between up to 40 currencies at the mid-market exchange rate.

Visit wise.com. TNCs apply.

Joining me today is podcast producer and film and culture critic Kate Young. Welcome back, Kate.

Hi, I'm so excited to be here for this one. Yeah, me too. I'm so glad you're here.

So the book Bridget Jones Diary was published in 1996 and the film came out in 2001. A spin on Pride and Prejudice, it starred

Renee Zalweger as Bridget, Colin Firth as her true love, Mark Darcy, and Hugh Grant as Cadd Daniel

Cleaver. Now, a couple of decades later, the fourth film is Bridget Jones, Mad About the Boy.

And we're about to spoil the premise here,

which if you care about this movie, you probably already know, but it is pretty massive, so we're just,

we're just warning you. Bridget is single again in this film because as the story opens,

Mark has been dead for four years. Bridget is a single mom to two kids and she's ready to start dating again.

She meets a young guy named Rockster, played by Leo Woodall, who has her feeling sexy again.

Ever so slightly, all the women have her wiser view on life.

...