The Bridges of Madison County

When the soul of a movie is reflected in an actor's eyes then you have a miracle, you have something that's going to last. Meryl Streep in "The Bridges Of Madison County" is such a miracle to me. I never... Full review

On the page "The Bridges of Madison County" often read like a reject from Mills and Boon and yet it was tremendously popular. People who normally wouldn't read this sort of thing were not only reading it but quoting it.... Full review

After the movie, your thoughts still lingering, what will happen if CLint and Meryl .... This is a very mature film, it provoke your thoughts on relationship, commitments between adults.... Full review

I cry everytime she stops herself from opening the door and running away. Very timeless movie and TRUE classic. Love it!... Full review

This is my favorite movie of all times. It is a great love story. It is real, so many people stay in a relationship due to obligation, children, comfort zone, security, financial reasons instead of following their heart. They love the... Full review

Ive seen this movie and have read the book many, many times. The heartache to me is more that so many women live lives with so little passion because their mates are so clueless. I would have left with Robert Kincaid.... Full review

Bridges is emotional book, was an incredible film, but having just finished Jane Smiley's 1991 Pulitzer Prize Winning "1000 Acres" -- a book which everybody should read -- the odd similarities of the 1992 "Bridges" (the "peregrine" last cowboy, also a... Full review

Touching story of a lonely married woman who meets a worldly man who helps her get back in touch with her feminine, romantic, and sexual being. She sacrificed her own love and happiness for the well-being and happiness of her family.... Full review

I've seen this movie at least a good 25 times. No matter how many times I've seen it, I cry! This has to be one of the most POWERFUL/MOVING movies I've ever seen. Best screen play, best script in my eyes.... Full review

I watched this movie like at least 8yrs ago. And I've watched tonnes of romantic movies before and since. Someone recently asked me what my favourite romantic movie was. My mind did a quick flashback, and this one came to mind.... Full review

THE BRIDGES OF MADISON COUNTY ($40) is one of Clint Eastwoods finest accomplishments as a director. THE BRIDGES OF MADISON COUNTY is a beautiful and sensitive film, which most will find to be a complete antithesis to his action oriented Dirty Harry films or his westerns. ... Full Review

This assertion that morality is an imposed rule keeping us from pleasure is a manipulative act which the film demonstrates as untrue. Streep, on the other hand is a trapped dreamer, whose responses to Eastwood are both calculated and naive. ... Full Review

Which is probably what this lousy, tedious movie deserved. Bridges mistakes extended character development for good character development. Well, maybe I can gripe a little, if just because we expect more from two such notable actors. ... Full Review

It is easy to analyze the mechanism, but more difficult to explain why this film is so deeply moving -- why Clint Eastwood and Meryl Streep have made it into a wonderful movie love story, playing Robert and Francesca. If the story had ended "happily" with them running away together, no one would have read Waller's book and no movie would exist. ... Full Review

The flashfowards are mercifully brief and easy to forgive since the rest of The Bridges of Madison County is so good. Unlike a more male picture, the script never vilifies the absent spouse. ... Full Review

In the cinematic adaptation of Robert James Waller's adored novel, The Bridges Of Madison County , romance unfolds through a set of three journals left behind by Francesca for her children (Annie Corley, Victor Slezak), now in their mid-forties, to... ... Full Article

February 14, 2002 - Stax here with a Special "Valentine's Day" Edition of the Stax Report! I'll be excluding some old chestnuts (how much more can be said about Gone With The Wind and Casablanca ) in favor of my... ... Full Article

By KENNETH TURAN TIMES FILM CRITIC April 6, 1996 Friday June 2, 1995 Clint Eastwood, Meryl Streep and Richard LaGravenese have pooled their resources and turned "The Bridges of Madison County," a literary sow's ear if ever there was one,... ... Full Article

Since 1988's Bird , Clint Eastwood has emerged as one of Hollywood's most consistently interesting filmmakers.He has an old-fashioned, workmanlike visual style all his own. ... Full Article