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The Bridges of Madison County
Directed by
Clint Eastwood
PG-13
1995
2h 15m
Drama
,
Romance
7.6
90%
87%
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Photographer Robert Kincaid wanders into the life of housewife Francesca Johnson for four days in the 1960s.
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Cast of The Bridges of Madison County
Meryl Streep
Francesca Johnson
Clint Eastwood
Robert Kincaid / Director / Producer
Annie Corley
Caroline Johnson
Victor Slezak
Michael Johnson
Jim Haynie
Richard Johnson
Sarah Zahn
Young Carolyn
Christopher Kroon
Young Michael
Phyllis Lyons
Betty
Debra Monk
Madge
Richard Lage
Lawyer Peterson
Michelle Benes
Lucy Redfield
Alison Wiegert
Child #1
Brandon Bobst
Child #2
Pearl Faessler
Wife
R.E. 'Stick' Faessler
Husband
Tania Burt
Waitress #1
Billie McNabb
Waitress #2
Art Breese
Cashier
Lana Schwab
Saleswoman
Larry Loury
UPS Driver
James Rivers
James Rivers Band
Mark A. Brooks
James Rivers Band
Peter Cho
James Rivers Band
Eddie Dejean Sr.
James Rivers Band
Jason C. Brewer
James Rivers Band
Kyle Eastwood
James Rivers Band
George Orrison
Café Patron
Ken Billeter
Café Patron
Judy Trask
Café Patron
David Trask
Café Patron
Edna Dolson
Café Patron
Dennis McCool
Café Patron
Michael C. Pommier
Café Patron
Jana Corkrean
Café Patron
M. Jane Seymour
Café Patron
Karla Jo Soper
Café Patron
Robert James Waller
Writer
Richard LaGravenese
Writer
Kathleen Kennedy
Producer
Michael Maurer
Producer
Tom Rooker
Producer
The Bridges of Madison County Ratings & Reviews
The Dissolve
Noel Murray
The strength of Eastwood's Bridges is in its patience, and how it lets the love story develop from start to finish, even though the audience knows from the beginning the broad strokes of what's going to happen.
Seattle Times
Jeff Shannon
With Eastwood as Kincaid and Meryl Streep as Francesca, this carefully observant love story turns Waller's pop-lit passion into screen art.
Philadelphia Inquirer
Carrie Rickey
Bridges is an admirable achievement, one that probably does more to reposition its maker as someone who can carry a movie without carrying a gun than as the director/star of a Love Story for the Loving Care set.
Philadelphia Daily News
Gary Thompson
Those who found Waller's book an outrageously bad read may be gratefully surprised to find less mush in the movie.
Orlando Sentinel
Jay Boyar
The result, if rather thin and certainly far from a masterpiece, is nevertheless quite lovely. This affecting little film is easily one of Eastwood's best efforts as a director.
The New Yorker
Anthony Lane
The two leads' sly comic rhythm is miles removed from the book's failing solemnity.
Chicago Tribune
Gene Siskel
Eastwood's Bridges has the energy and spontaneity of a picture that was shot quickly. And that serves the material well, because it removes the solemnity that could stiffle a modern classic.
Chicago Reader
Jonathan Rosenbaum
Despite all his craft and sincerity, [Eastwood] and screenwriter Richard LaGravenese can't quite turn Robert James Waller's cardboard best-seller into flesh and bone.
Washington Post
Rita Kempley
Bridges is an old-fashioned "women's film" that pits the heroine's romantic urges against her matriarchal duties. In fact, the film is at its dramatic best when Francesca is finally obliged, like Sophie, to make her choice.
Wall Street Journal
Joe Morgenstern
Streep makes her character known in no time flat. Intelligence, humor, blocked ambition, self-irony -- they're all contained in Francesca's quick response when Robert asks if she has any plans for the afternoon.
Entertainment Weekly
Owen Gleiberman
Meryl Streep and Clint Eastwood, as Waller's tenderly plaintive heartland lovers, are so visually and spiritually right they seem to have walked right off the page.
Washington Post
Desson Thomson
What follows is, essentially, gothic-romantic bunk. But there's a nicely stylized, below-the-surface courtship between the performers. They make you forget that, at their very core, they are hackneyed creations.
TIME Magazine
Richard Corliss
Madison County is Eastwood's gift to women: to Francesca, to all the girls he's loved before -- and to Streep, who alchemizes literary mawkishness into intelligent movie passion.
Variety
Todd McCarthy
Given the intelligent restraint of the treatment, this is about as fine an adaptation of this material as one could hope for...
New York Times
Janet Maslin
Limited by the vapidity of this material while he trims its excesses with the requisite machete, Mr. Eastwood locates a moving, elegiac love story at the heart of Mr. Waller's self-congratulatory overkill.
San Francisco Chronicle
Mick LaSalle
What the movie does that the book couldn't do is tap into the poignancy that comes of seeing two stars who used to be young and beautiful suddenly looking very mortal.
Los Angeles Times
Kenneth Turan
Screenwriter LaGravenese ought to get the Croix de Guerre for doing battle with Waller's fatuous prose and paring Bridges down to its most appealing fantasy romance essence.
Austin Chronicle
Marjorie Baumgarten
Bridges 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.
USA Today
Mike Clark
The gap between touchy-feely and touching isn't easy to span, so credit judicious pruning on the one hand and a beefed-up script on the other for getting perhaps the best possible movie out of Robert James Waller's The Bridges of Madison County.
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
I've seen the movie twice now and was even more involved the second time, because I was able to pay more attention to the nuances of voice and gesture.
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