The Bridges of Madison County (film)

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The Bridges of Madison County

Original movie poster for The Bridges of Madison County.
Directed by Clint Eastwood
Produced by Clint Eastwood
Kathleen Kennedy
Written by Robert James Waller (novel)
Richard LaGravenese
Starring Meryl Streep
Clint Eastwood
Annie Corley
Victor Slezak
Jim Haynie
Cinematography Jack N.Green
Editing by Joel Cox
Distributed by Warner Bros.
Release date(s) 2 June 1995
Running time 135 min.
Country Flag of the United States United States
Language English
Budget $22 million (estimated)
Gross revenue $182,016,617 (worldwide)
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The Bridges of Madison County is a 1995 film based on the best-selling novel by Robert James Waller. It was made by Amblin Entertainment, Malpaso Productions and Warner Bros. It was produced and directed by Clint Eastwood with Kathleen Kennedy as co-producer and the screenplay was adapted by Richard LaGravenese.

The film stars Eastwood and Meryl Streep. The movie was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress (Meryl Streep).

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[edit] Plot

The film is set in the summer of 1965. It tells the story of Francesca (Meryl Streep), a lonely Italian Iowa housewife. While her husband and children are away at the Illinois State Fair, she meets and falls in love with a photographer (Clint Eastwood) who has come to Madison County, Iowa to create a photographic essay for National Geographic on the covered bridges in the area. The four days they spend together are a turning point in her life and she writes of her experience in a diary which is discovered by her children after her death. The end of the diary reads:

I'm not sure you can [be yourself] with me along. Don't you see, I love you so much that I cannot think of restraining you for a moment. To do that would be to kill the wild, magnificent animal that is you.. I have feelings of responsibility here.. To Richard (her husband), to the children. Just my leaving, taking away my physical presence, would be hard enough for Richard. That alone might destroy him. On top of that, and this is even worse, he would have to live the rest of his life with the whispers of the people here.. the children would hear the snickering of Winterset for as long as they live here. They would suffer, too. And they would hate me for it.. I cannot live with the thought. [of abandoning my responsibilities] If I did leave now, those thoughts would turn me into something other than the woman you have come to love.

[edit] Cast

  • Clint Eastwood ... Robert Kincaid
  • Meryl Streep ... Francesca Johnson
  • Annie Corley ... Carolyn Johnson
  • Victor Slezak ... Michael Johnson
  • Jim Haynie ... Richard Johnson
  • Sarah Kathryn Schmitt ... 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

[edit] Awards

[edit] Won

  • ASCAP Film and Television Music Awards:
    • Top Box Office Films
  • Blue Ribbon Awards (Japan):
    • Best Foreign Language Film
  • BMI Film & TV Awards:
    • BMI Film Music Award (Lennie Niehaus)
  • Kinema Junpo Awards (Japan):
    • Best Foreign Language Film Director (Clint Eastwood)
  • Mainichi Film Concours (Japan):
    • Best Foreign Language Film

[edit] Nominated

[edit] See also

[edit] External links

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Films directed by Clint Eastwood
1970s
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1980s
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1990s
White Hunter Black Heart (1990) • The Rookie (1990) • Unforgiven (1992) • A Perfect World (1993) • The Bridges of Madison County (1995) • Absolute Power (1997) • Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil (1997) • True Crime (1999)
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