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The movie reflects the true feelings of an Overseas Filipino Workers in Italy where Filipino communities can be found. Like Chinese and Indian nationals, Filipinos can be found in almost all parts of the globe. Because Filipinos can adapt easily to any given environment. This story follows the journey of naive Lino (Piolo Pascual) as he searches for his missing wife in Italy. He comes across Jenny (Claudine Barretto), an imposing figure in the Filipino community of migrant workers, whose dreams of grandeur have clouded her need for personal relationships. In a desperate quest and game of survival, the two find refuge and affirmation in each other. What started as a mentor-protégé relationship, Lino and Jennys partnership evolves beautifully into a self-consuming love affair. Until these two are put to a test. Reality bites as the land changes everything. In the end, it matters not for Lino that he finds his wife for he has found himself. And alas, it matters not for Jenny that she sacrifices for love, for she has learned to give, in order to live again. The film is not just a mere love story. It encompasses the colorful lives of Filipinos as a global citizens of the world.

Move over Barbra Streisand! The new Funny Girl of new millennium has invaded the silver screen once more.

The funny but charismatic Bridget Jones character brought Zellweger to critical acclaim in 2001, for who could ever forget this Briton office girl who unexpectedly became the symbol of young working women around the world? But reprising the role again was a hard decision to make for Zellweger because she needed to fatten up. She had to give up her whistle-bait figure which often was under Carolina Herrera's dreamboat gowns.

But Zellweger admits that it is her devotion to Bridget Jones as a character which ultimately made her agree to do it the second time around. "I simply loves this character so much that I felt a strong personal responsibility to protect her and to preserve the integrity of who she is. She was such a blessing in my life and she's so special to me."

For the "resurrection" of Bridget Jones, Zellweger had to gain more than 30 pounds and change her normal Size 6 dress to Size 14! This physical transformation was needed to account for Bridget's constant obsession with her ever-so-light extra layer of fat (or fat units, as Bridget is known to say).

"For me, it's a necessary part of an honest portral of who Bridget is," noted the actress. "If I can't be her in body as well as in spirit, then what would be the point?" While the first "Bridget Jones" film was a clever story telling from a contemporary single woman's secret diary, the new "Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason" is an actual rip off on the real world of love and career challenges being experiences by everybody. The new film starts where the fairytale romance ends and the morning-after questions begin. How do you make love work once you've managed to do the impossible and find it? The resulting comic tale shows Bridget dealing with her newfound happiness and coping with her new crazy career challenges.

The director, Beeban Kidron, explained Briget's dilemma about being a woman in love: "Bridget starts out with this fantasy ideal of perfect love with a perfect man,without any conflict. She seems to think that she herself has to be perfect, but the harder she tries, the worse things get. In this movie, we see Bridget really maturing into someone who realizes that perfection isn't at all that counts in love. It's caring, kindness, understanding... all those other grownup things. Yes, she's growing up in her own hilarious ways."

Yes, indeed! Renee is a charming, witty and classy comedian I have ever seen after Barbra's My Funny Girl.