"Go on Punk, Make me cry!!!"The Bridges of Madison County is a 1995 romantic drama film based on the best-selling novel by Robert James Waller. It was produced by Amblin Entertainment and Malpaso Productions, and distributed by Warner Bros.. The film was produced and directed by Clint Eastwood with Kathleen Kennedy as co-producer and the screenplay was adapted by Richard LaGravenese. The film ranked 90 in the AFI's 100 Years... 100 Passions and tied with Goodbye South, Goodbye and Carlito's Way to be dubbed the best film of the 1990s in a poll by Cahiers du cinéma[1].
The film stars Eastwood and Meryl Streep, who was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress in 1995 for her performance.
Plot
The film is set in the summer of 1965. It tells the story of Francesca (Meryl Streep), a lonely, insightful Italian housewife in Iowa. 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.
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
Bob says:
Well not many Clint films can bring a tear to Bob's eye like this one did. Meryl Streep recieved an Academy Award nomination for her role here. She and Eastwood both gave full on tear-jerking performances and both should have won Oscars!
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