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• Scenes in the trailer but not in the film:
  • Bridget in a blue ruffled shirt kissing Daniel in a black shirt while she holds a letter.
  • A shot showing her three friends disco dancing in feather boas in the street.
  • A conversation between Bridget and Sharon at the gym in which Bridget asks if all her problems are because she is overweight is completely cut - leaving the only scene of Bridget in the gym (over-exercising on a stationary bike and falling off) seem out of place.
  • The line "I haven't had a sniff of a date in over 18 months" has been completely excised from the film. The conversation in which it "appears" in the trailer changes the line to a false-sounding "Super!"
  • A shot showing Bridget and her two girlfriends gasping in reaction to Daniel and Mark's fight appears differently in the movie - they show them gasping, but in a different position with different background scenery.
  • When Bridget answers the phone "Bridget Jones, wanton sex goddess," it is her mother on the line in the movie and she accordingly replies "Mum, hi!" In the trailer, she replies, "Dad!"
  
  
  
• UK home video versions had have some dialogue revoiced to remove one instance of the word 'c*nt' and substitute it with the word 'cow', to avoid an 18 rating.
  
  
• The way Daniel asks out Bridget is completely different in the trailer. In the trailer, he asks her out while sitting on her desk in the office, and she is wearing a red shirt. In the movie, he takes the elevator down with her, and (after some subtle groping) he asks her out in the lobby of their office building as she is leaving, and she is wearing a black tie-front cardigan and her coat.
  
  
• There are subtle differences between the same scenes in the USA and UK versions of the movie. This includes not only different takes of the scene, but sometimes different dialogue. For example, one version of the first job interview has a question about "the El Niño phenomenon", others have a question about Microsoft. In addition, during the credits, the USA version has a home movie of Mark Darcy's 8th birthday party with the young Bridget. The UK version has interviews with the various characters about the new relationship between Bridget and Mark.
  
  
• The scene when Bridget attends the Alconbury's Tarts & Vicars party in the bunny suit is slightly differet. In the trailer, Natasha comments, "Strange what some men find attractive," in a close up of her and Mark Darcy, and Darcy replies, "Yes." In the film, the comment is made during a long shot of Natasha, Darcy and two other partygoers, and Darcy does not reply to her comment.
  
  
• When Bridget is having dinner with Shazza, Jude and Tom and asks what they would do if their employee did a "harmless little mistake like that" we are led to believe that she's referring to the F.R. Leavis incident. But in one of the scenes that were cut it shows Bridget (on the same day) pitching a marketing idea to one of their writers, the only problem is that she mistakes Michael Naughton the author of "Teddy knows best" for Michael Harper the author of "The red door". This is more likely to be what she's referring to.
  
  

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