The Bridges of Madison County
The Bridges of Madison County

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The path of Francesca Johnson's (Meryl Streep's) future seems destined when an unexpected fork in the road causes her to question everything she had come to expect from life. While her husband and children are away at the Illinois State Fair in the summer of 1965, Robert Kincaid (Clint Eastwood) happens to turn into the Johnson farm and asks Francesca for directions to Roseman Bridge. Francesca later learns that he was in Iowa on assignment from National Geographic Magazine. ... (Full plot summary below)

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Actors in The Bridges of Madison County:

Meryl Streep
Clint Eastwood
Annie Corley
Victor Slezak
Jim Haynie
Sarah Zahn

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The path of Francesca Johnson's (Meryl Streep's) future seems destined when an unexpected fork in the road causes her to question everything she had come to expect from life. While her husband and children are away at the Illinois State Fair in the summer of 1965, Robert Kincaid (Clint Eastwood) happens to turn into the Johnson farm and asks Francesca for directions to Roseman Bridge. Francesca later learns that he was in Iowa on assignment from National Geographic Magazine. She is reluctant seeing that he's a complete stranger, and then she agrees to show him to the bridges and gradually she talks about her life from being a war-bride from Italy which sets the pace for this bittersweet and all-too-brief romance of her life. Through the pain of separation from her secret love and the stark isolation she feels as the details of her life consume her, she writes her thoughts of the four-day love affair which took up three journals. The journals are found by her children after the lawyer was going over Francesca's will and all of the contents which produces a key to her hope chest in the bedroom which contained some of hers and Robert's things. The message they take from the diaries is to what you what you have to do to be happy in life. After learning that Robert Kincaid's cremated remains were scattered off Roseman Bridge and that their mother requested that she too be cremated and her ashes to be scattered off Roseman Bridge, the children must decide whether to honor their mother's final wishes or bury her alongside their father as the family had planned. Adapted from the novel by Robert James Waller, this is the story of a special love that happens just once in a lifetime, if you're lucky.

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Chicago Tribune - 10/10 by Gene SiskelStreep is an actress known for her uncanny ability with accents, but her quiet performance in "Bridges" proves that she would have made a world-class silent-film star, too.
Entertainment Weekly - 10/10 by Owen GleibermanTo say that Eastwood, who directed, has done a first-rate job of adaptation fails to do him justice. What he's brought off is closer to alchemy.
ReelViews - 9/10 by James BerardinelliA beautiful film, not only in the way it was photographed, but for the manner through which the characters are revealed to us.
Seattle Times - 9/10 by Jeff ShannonWith Eastwood as Kincaid and Meryl Streep as Francesca, this carefully observant love story turns Waller's pop-lit passion into screen art.
Chicago Sun-Times - 9/10 by Roger EbertIt is easy to analyze the mechanism, but more difficult to explain why this film is so deeply moving.
Boxoffice Magazine - 9/10 by Michael LightcapEastwood is charmingly likable, self-confident and good-humored, but he's miscast. He is 20 years too old, has a limited emotional range, and lacks the erotic power to generate the needed sexual chemistry with Streep.
Austin Chronicle - 8/10 by Marjorie BaumgartenBridges is another example of Eastwood's remarkable economy of style as both a director and an actor. It is neither his best work nor his worst, though it is a fascinating exploration.
Antagony & Ecstasy - 8/10 by Tim BraytonThe film is good enough; Streep is the X-factor that makes it excellent.
Empire - 8/10 by Angie ErrigoStreep and Eastwood's chemistry makes the film.
People Magazine - 8/10 by Leah RozenThe movie, thank goodness, is better than the book. What's more surprising is that The Bridges of Madison County is an accomplished piece of moviemaking.

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