One of the funniest parts of the movie Bridget Jones's Diary (which I attended last night for the second time) is the fight between the characters played by Colin Firth and Hugh Grant. It's a classic British schoolboy fight -- complete with kicking, hair-pulling, and name-calling -- with comic value added by the fact that the two participants are in their thirties. They're even followed out into the street and egged on by a gang of onlookers (Bridget's pals, along with a bunch of Greek waiters from the restaurant across the street).

Grant Has 'Girly' Fight in Bridget Jones's Diary

There's nothing macho about the fight between Hugh Grant and Colin Firth in Bridget Jones's Diary. Grant insisted on filming the scene that way. "I've been trying to do that for years," he told reporters. "To fight like two middle-class educated Englishmen would fight, which I've always maintained would be girly, cowardly -- with squealing." (AP, 4/15/01)