
It's about a five member family. The father is a conservative and traditional person who directs the family. The mother is at home, she tries to hold together the family, while Mr. Bridge works as a lawyer. The children have just grown up, and the complications are derived from that they have a more modern view of life.... (Full plot summary below)
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It's about a five member family. The father is a conservative and traditional person who directs the family. The mother is at home, she tries to hold together the family, while Mr. Bridge works as a lawyer. The children have just grown up, and the complications are derived from that they have a more modern view of life.
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| Video-Reviewmaster.comSteve CrumGreat period character study with Newman and Woodward in very good form. |
| The New York TimesVincent CanbyMr. and Mrs. Bridge is wise and funny and just a little bit scary. Though it's an adaptation, it has the manner of a true original. |
| Chicago ReaderJonathan RosenbaumThis deserves to be seen and cherished for at least a couple of reasons: first for Joanne Woodward's exquisitely multilayered and nuanced performance as India Bridge, a frustrated, well-to-do WASP Kansas City housewife and mother during the 30s and 40s; and second for screenwriter Ruth Prawer Jhabvala's retention of much of the episodic, short-chapter form of the books. |
| Rolling StonePeter TraversThe film is dawdling, sometimes maddeningly so, but Newman and Woodward deliver lovingly detailed and bruisingly true performances that not only command attention but richly reward it. |
| Christian Science MonitorDavid SterrittIt marks a new artistic peak for director James Ivory, producer Ismail Merchant, and writer Ruth Prawer Jhabvala. |
| Wall Street JournalJulie SalamonThe film is so well made and acted, because it captures its period so meticulously. |
| TimeRichard SchickelThis memory piece, shy in manner but tough in spirit, has brought out the best in everyone connected with it. |
| Los Angeles TimesPeter RainerMr. & Mrs. Bridge is watchable but also stiff and remote. |
| The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Rick GroenIt's respectful but not particularly vigorous or enlightening. |
| USA TodayMike ClarkIt's hard to imagine that even a documentary on the apparently harmonious marriage of Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward -a union established in 1958 and still going strong - could be duller than this stodgy addition to the Merchant-Ivory menu of good taste. |