The Bridges of Madison County (Full Screen Edition)

The Bridges of Madison County (Full Screen Edition) Review

My wife and I have been watching a lot of Clint Eastwood movies as late night entertainment. Most fall within his Western Movie series or Dirty Harry series. Last night we switched to "The Bridges of Madison County." Boy, what a change! No gunfights. No violence. No tough guy. Rather, a very engaging love story, and set to a beautiful soundtrack.

Eastwood plays a National Geographic photographer who accidently meets Meryl Streep, a lonely Iowa farm wife, at a time when her family is away for four days at a state fair. He is there to photograph the covered bridges in the nearby vicinity. Everything that happens is totally unplanned. An elegant and deep love story slowly unfolds. Of course, it's playing against the clock as her family is returning and the time eventually runs out. Streep stays with her husband and Eastwood goes his own way. The ending is quite touching. Be sure to have a big box of tissues around because you're going to need them. It's a wonderful story and just exceptionally well done.

Gary Peterson

The Bridges of Madison County (Full Screen Edition) Overview

World-traveling National Geographic photographer Robert Kincaid and Iowa housewife Francesca Johnson aren't looking to turn their lives upside down. Each is at a point in life where expectations are behind them. Yet four days after meeting, they won't want to lose the love they've found.

Academy Award winners Meryl Streep (earning her 10th Oscar nomination for this performance) and Clint Eastwood (who also produces and directs) bring blazing starpower and powerful conviction to the beloved characters of Robert James Waller's rhapsodic best-seller of love, choice and consequences. "Streep and Eastwood are so visually and spiritually right they seem to have walked right off the page," Entertainment Weekly proclaims. Also right are the small details and large emotions of once-in-a-lifetime love. With luck, a love like that happens to some of us sooner or later. For Robert and Francesca, it was later. And it was glorious.

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Some called it a snooze-fest, while others tearfully clutched their Kleenex. In any case, Clint Eastwood was an unusual and (as it turned out) perceptive choice to direct and costar in this lush adaptation of Robert James Waller's phenomenally bestselling novel. Meryl Streep costars as Francesca, the lonely Iowa farmer's wife who is instantly attracted to Robert (Eastwood), the photographer from National Geographic who is in the area to photograph the bridges along Iowa's rural roadways. The two fall in love while Francesca's husband and children are away at a county fair, but the story's passion and lasting appeal derive from their decision to part forever after just a few brief days of intimate connection. Superbly acted with an emphasis on quiet, graceful moments of tender revelation, the film builds to a crescendo of powerful and conflicting emotions. Like David Lean's Brief Encounter (to which it bears marked similarities), The Bridges of Madison County is destined to become one of the classic movie love stories. --Jeff Shannon

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