Clint Eastwood,
Meryl Streep,
Annie Corley,
Victor Slezak,
Jim Haynie
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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. ... read more
Directed by: Clint Eastwood
Release Date: June 2, 1995
DVD Release Date: September 25, 1997
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March 28, 2010I was reluctant to take a chance on this one because of the pretense, but the story and Miss Streep drew me in. Now that I've seen it - no regrets.
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August 17, 2009Not the quickest moving movie, but worth watching if you can perserve with it. Very sad and has something to say about living the life that makes you happy, and not to please everyone else. The main character does not manage to do this and you see the impact not only on her own ... read more
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August 16, 2009My mom's favorite movie of all time is also one I'm a fan of. Of course, what Clint Eastwood movie am I NOT a fan of? He shows in this one that not only can he direct, but be an awesome actor in a variety of genres, not just westerns and crime dramas, but the tearjerking kinds al... read more
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October 3, 2007This was pretty boring to me but I thought the cast did a good job of becoming these people.
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April 13, 2006What a beautiful movie. I just saw this for the first time. I regret so much refusing to see this because of the stupidity of the book. Hey, it's Clint Eastwood acting and directing. I should have known better. If you like Eastwood--or Meryl Streep--, you should not miss thi... read more
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Critic Reviews
October 27, 2008
Richard Corliss, TIME Magazine
June 23, 2008
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... Full Review
May 17, 2004
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 over... Full Review
June 18, 2002
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. Full Review
February 13, 2001
Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times
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. Full Review
January 1, 2000
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
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. Full Review
January 1, 2000
James Berardinelli, ReelViews
The Bridges of Madison County is a beautiful film, not only in the way it was photographed, but for the manner through which the characters are revealed to us. Full Review
January 1, 2000
Mike Clark, USA Today
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 ...
August 16, 2011
Tim Brayton, Antagony & Ecstasy
The film is good enough; Streep is the X-factor that makes it excellent. Full Review
October 27, 2008
TV Guide's Movie Guide
Little happens here apart from a long, slow buildup to sentimentalized coitus, but there's no denying the sheer screen presence of these two 500-lb. gorillas of pop culture. Full Review
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