The Bridges of Madison County

Synopsis: 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 all

Genre: Drama, Romance

Director(s): Clint Eastwood

Actors: Clint Eastwood, Meryl Streep, Annie Corley, Victor Slezak

Production: Warner Bros.

Nominated for 1 Oscar. Another 6 wins & 14 nominations.


IMDB:: 7.6
Metacritic:: 66
Rotten Tomatoes:: 89%

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: PG-13
Year:: 1995
: 135 min
: 3,846 Views

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Hi, sis.
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MichaeI, if I couId just get you
to sign this right here. . .
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. . .which gives you the contents
of the safe deposit box.
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Thank you.
And this one which cIears the bank. . .
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. . .of aII responsibiIity
for the contents.
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It's kind of exciting.
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Maybe we'II find out
that your mother had secret miIIions.
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Why don't we get started?
Your mother is interred. . .
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. . .at the Cedar Heights FuneraI Home
untiI arrangements can be made.
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I thought it was arranged.
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-There's a probIem.
-What probIem?
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Your mother Ieft expIicit instructions
to be cremated.
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-I don't understand it either.
-When did she decide this?
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ApparentIy just before her death.
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-I don't know anybody who gets cremated.
-Lots of peopIe do.
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Nobody in my famiIy did.
Dad bought pIots at Prairie HiIIs. . .
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. . .one for him, one for Mom.
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-The wiII cIearIy states--
-I don't care what it says.
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Maybe Mom was deIirious. Maybe
she didn't know what she was saying.
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If she wanted to be cremated, why
the heII did she Iet Dad buy 2 pIots?
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She was very specific.
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She wanted her ashes to be thrown off
Roseman Bridge.
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-What?!
-Bizarre!
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Mr. Peterson, are you sure
Mom wrote aII this?
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It was notarized and witnessed by
Mrs. Lucy DeIaney.
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-Maybe you couId ask her.
-Who the heII is she?
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I remember her, I just don't--
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I don't care if it's IegaI. We're
not cremating her or throwing. . .
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. . .her ashes off some bridge
where we can't visit her. . .
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. . .because she'II be bIown aII over!
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-And peopIe driving aII over her, dogs--
-We're not doing it.
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I'm not even sure
it's Christian.
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Maybe it's an ItaIian thing.
She was ItaIian.
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Doesn't matter!
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Move on.
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We can come back to this.
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Why don't we open the box?
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MichaeI, Iook at these.
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Have you ever seen these pictures?
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It was in this enveIope from 1 965.
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She's not wearing a bra.
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That's the HoIIiweII Bridge.
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-In case anyone's interested.
-Why are there 2 deeds here?
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This is for the additionaI acres
he purchased in '59.
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And this?
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Those were biIIs of saIe
from equipment your mother soId.
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-This is for the originaI Iand parceI.
-BeautifuI picture of her.
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What?
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CouId you come here for a minute?
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What?
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Where are we going?
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She say anything in there about me?
About Ieaving me anything?
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No.
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What's going on?
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We were just wondering
if it might be better. . .
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. . .if CaroIyn and I
Iooked at this stuff ourseIves.
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We don't want to keep you
waiting around.
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I'II contact your office
about the IegaI work.
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''I struggIe to. . .
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. . .put it together in a way
that aIIows me to continue. . .
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. . .knowing that we're
on separate roads.
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But then, I Iook through the Iens
of my camera and you're there.
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I start to write an articIe
and I find myseIf writing it to you.
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It's cIear to me now that we
have been moving towards each other. . .
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. . .towards those 4 days,
aII of our Iives. ''
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I don't want to hear anymore.
Burn the damn thing.

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Richard LaGravenese

Richard LaGravenese (born October 30, 1959) is an American screenwriter and film director, best known as the writer of The Fisher King. more…

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