THE BRIDGES OF MADISON COUNTY

Clint Eastwood, Meryl Streep, Annie Corley

Warner Bros.; Directed by Clint Eastwood

Rated PG-13; 135 minutes; 1995

National Geographic photographer Robert Kincaid (Clint Eastwood) meets a simple, country Italian-American housewife named Francesca (Meryl Streep) while doing a piece on the famed bridges of Madison County in southern Iowa. Together, they share a once-in-a-lifetime love that may change them and forever in this romance based on the best-selling novel by Robert James Waller.

REVIEWS

"A great film. As beautiful a love story as I’ve ever seen. Eastwood directs magnificently.
Streep has totally captured the character of Francesca. BRIDGES left me in tears."

— Larry King, USA TODAY

"A miracle. The stars shine the way the stars are meant to shine. Meryl Streep gives a fierce, funny, shattering performance. Clint Eastwood is both daringly vulnerable and invincibly masculine. These incomparable pros demonstrate what chemistry is all about."

—Guy Flatley, COSMOPOLITAN

"A marvelous movie, straight from the heart. THE BRIDGES OF MADISON COUNTY is a modern romantic classic, rich and radiant with real feeling and true beauty. Clint Eastwood and Meryl Streep create a poignant and passionate pair of lovers. An artful pleasure."

— David Sheehan, CBS-TV

"A rapturous love story. Marvelous, irresistible emotional power."

— Gene Shalit, TODAY SHOW, NBC-TV

"Eastwood and Streep work together with real heat and power. The erotic tension that develops them is a believable force."

— Jack Kroll, NEWSWEEK

"Intelligent movie passion. MADISON COUNTY is Clint Eastwood’s gift to women."

— Richard Corliss, TIME

"Two thumbs up."

— SISKEL & EBERT

"Clint Eastwood and Meryl Streep make magic."

— Owen Gleiberman, ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY

"Magnificent. Perhaps Eastwood’s finest director. Eastwood and Streep shine."

— Bob Strauss, LA DAILY NEWS