The Bridges of Madison County (1995)
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90% of critics liked it
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83% of users liked it
(46,638 ratings)
The brief, illicit love affair between an Iowa housewife and a post-middle-age free-lance photographer is chronicled in this powerful romance based on the best-selling novella by Robert James Waller. The story begins as globetrotting National Geographic photographer Robert Kincaid journeys to… More The brief, illicit love affair between an Iowa housewife and a post-middle-age free-lance photographer is chronicled in this powerful romance based on the best-selling novella by Robert James Waller. The story begins as globetrotting National Geographic photographer Robert Kincaid journeys to Madison County in 1965 to film its lovely covered bridges. Upon his arrival, he stops by an old farmhouse to ask directions. There he encounters housewife, Francesca Johnson, whose spouse and two children are out of town. Thus begins their four-day affair, a liaison that fundamentally changes them both. Later Francesca chronicles the affair in a diary which her flabbergasted grown children read; never would they have expected their mother to be capable of the passion she experienced with Kincaid. ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi
- Directed By
- Clint Eastwood
- Written By
- Richard La Gravenese
- Genres
- Drama, Romance
PG-13,
- In Theaters
- Jun 2, 1995 Wide
- Studio
- Warner Bros.
Critic Reviews
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Richard Corliss, TIME Magazine
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.
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Todd McCarthy, Variety
Given the intelligent restraint of the treatment, this is about as fine an adaptation of this material as one could hope for...
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Geoff Andrew, Time Out
Immaculately performed, and assembled with wit and sensitivity, this is one of the most satisfying weepies in years.
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Janet Maslin, New York Times
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.
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Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle
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.
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Cast
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Clint Eastwood
as Robert Kincaid
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Meryl Streep
as Francesca Johnson
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Annie Corley
as Caroline
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Victor Slezak
as Michael Johnson
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Jim Haynie
as Richard Johnson
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Kyle Eastwood
as James River Band #6
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Phyllis Lyons
as Betty
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Debra Monk
as Madge
- David Gilbert
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George Orrison
as Cafe Patron
