The Bridges of Madison County
1995 · Movie · 135 min. · United States
The path of Francesca Johnson'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 happens 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 ...
Direction Clint Eastwood
Cast Meryl Streep · Clint Eastwood · Annie Corley · Victor Slezak · Jim Haynie · Sarah Kathryn Schmitt · Christopher Kroon · Phyllis Lyons · Debra Monk · Richard Lage
Soundtrack Lennie Niehaus
Screenplay Richard LaGravenese · Robert James Waller
Cinematography Jack N. Green
Original title The Bridges of Madison County
7.5
75K votes (FilmAffinity)
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