The Bridges of Madison County Page #11

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
3,802 Views

''He toId me he wouIdn't apoIogize

for what was going to happen. ''

715

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What's the matter?

716

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12:53,549 -- 01:12:55,460 X1:189 X2:529 Y1:468 Y2:495

I'm going to get some air.

717

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13:21,029 -- 01:13:23,065 X1:226 X2:492 Y1:469 Y2:495

Take me somepIace.

718

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13:23,789 -- 01:13:26,303 X1:135 X2:584 Y1:469 Y2:495

Right now. Take me somepIace. . .

719

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13:26,549 -- 01:13:28,028 X1:230 X2:488 Y1:468 Y2:495

. . .that you've been.

720

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13:28,989 -- 01:13:31,549 X1:172 X2:547 Y1:436 Y2:495

SomepIace on the other side

of the worId.

721

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13:34,389 -- 01:13:35,981 X1:248 X2:471 Y1:469 Y2:495

How about ItaIy?

722

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13:38,509 -- 01:13:39,737 X1:323 X2:396 Y1:474 Y2:495

Yeah.

723

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13:41,829 -- 01:13:43,467 X1:251 X2:467 Y1:474 Y2:495

How about Bari?

724

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Yeah.

725

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13:51,069 -- 01:13:53,060 X1:191 X2:528 Y1:474 Y2:495

TeII me about that time. . .

726

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13:53,949 -- 01:13:56,463 X1:207 X2:512 Y1:469 Y2:495

. . .you got off the train.

727

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You know the station.

728

01:
14:01,309 -- 01:14:05,222 X1:162 X2:557 Y1:431 Y2:495

You know the IittIe restaurant

with the striped awning. . .

729

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14:05,629 -- 01:14:07,859 X1:235 X2:483 Y1:474 Y2:495

. . .serves iarrancino./i

730

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iArancino./i

731

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And izeppoli/i .

I know that pIace.

732

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I had coffee there.

733

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Did you sit. . .

734

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14:23,549 -- 01:14:28,225 X1:150 X2:569 Y1:436 Y2:495

. . .by the doorway

or near the front of the church?

735

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14:29,109 -- 01:14:30,701 X1:212 X2:506 Y1:474 Y2:495

I was near the church.

736

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I know, I sat there once.

737

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14:39,589 -- 01:14:41,181 X1:242 X2:476 Y1:474 Y2:495

I sat there once. . .

738

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14:41,429 -- 01:14:44,148 X1:217 X2:501 Y1:431 Y2:495

. . .on a day Iike this.

It was very hot and. . .

739

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14:46,989 -- 01:14:51,267 X1:130 X2:589 Y1:430 Y2:495

. . .I'd been shopping and I had

aII these packages around my feet.

740

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I had to keep moving them.

741

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Then what?

742

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You make me forget my story.

743

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Lucky me.

744

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iI had thoughts about him.../i

745

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15:42,469 -- 01:15:44,585 X1:141 X2:578 Y1:469 Y2:495

i...I hardly knew what to do with./i

746

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15:45,549 -- 01:15:47,505 X1:207 X2:512 Y1:469 Y2:495

iAnd he read every one./i

747

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15:48,549 -- 01:15:49,948 X1:259 X2:459 Y1:474 Y2:495

iWhatever I felt./i

748

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15:50,189 -- 01:15:52,783 X1:213 X2:506 Y1:431 Y2:495

iWhatever I wanted,/i

ihe gave himself up to./i

749

01:
15:53,829 -- 01:15:55,023 X1:213 X2:506 Y1:474 Y2:495

iAnd in that moment.../i

750

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15:55,269 -- 01:15:59,182 X1:128 X2:590 Y1:431 Y2:495

i...everything I knew/i

ito be true about myself, was gone./i

751

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16:00,069 -- 01:16:02,537 X1:131 X2:588 Y1:469 Y2:495

iI was acting like another woman.../i

752

01:
16:03,589 -- 01:16:06,706 X1:196 X2:523 Y1:436 Y2:495

i... yet I was more myself/i

ithan ever before./i

753

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16:14,069 -- 01:16:16,822 X1:142 X2:576 Y1:431 Y2:495

iWe decided to spend Wednesday/i

iaway from Winterset.../i

754

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16:17,069 -- 01:16:18,946 X1:160 X2:558 Y1:469 Y2:495

i...away from Madison County./i

755

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16:20,429 -- 01:16:23,421 X1:145 X2:574 Y1:431 Y2:495

iAway from pastures and bridges/i

iand people too familiar.../i

756

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16:23,669 -- 01:16:25,899 X1:173 X2:545 Y1:469 Y2:495

i...and reminders too painful./i

757

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16:26,709 -- 01:16:29,428 X1:211 X2:507 Y1:436 Y2:495

iWe let the day take us/i

iwhere it wanted./i

758

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16:35,109 -- 01:16:37,623 X1:272 X2:446 Y1:436 Y2:495

Is that India?

It's beautifuI.

759

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16:38,789 -- 01:16:40,586 X1:249 X2:469 Y1:474 Y2:495

Look at this one.

760

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16:41,589 -- 01:16:43,944 X1:191 X2:527 Y1:436 Y2:495

Look at their expressions.

BeautifuI.

761

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16:44,269 -- 01:16:46,464 X1:153 X2:565 Y1:473 Y2:495

As if the camera isn't on them.

762

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16:48,069 -- 01:16:51,186 X1:193 X2:525 Y1:430 Y2:495

They're not photographs,

they're stories.

763

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16:52,069 -- 01:16:54,867 X1:190 X2:528 Y1:431 Y2:495

You shouId pubIish these,

have your own coIIection.

764

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16:56,749 -- 01:16:57,943 X1:251 X2:468 Y1:468 Y2:495

Nobody'd buy it.

765

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16:58,189 -- 01:16:59,508 X1:215 X2:503 Y1:469 Y2:495

Why do you say that?

766

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17:00,109 -- 01:17:02,828 X1:167 X2:552 Y1:469 Y2:495

6 pubIishers have toId me so.

767

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17:04,829 -- 01:17:06,581 X1:282 X2:437 Y1:469 Y2:495

No big deaI.

768

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17:06,829 -- 01:17:08,342 X1:254 X2:465 Y1:474 Y2:495

Whatever it is. . .

769

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17:08,589 -- 01:17:11,865 X1:177 X2:542 Y1:436 Y2:495

. . .that makes an artist

Iook Iike one to the worId. . .

770

01:
17:12,109 -- 01:17:14,384 X1:154 X2:565 Y1:468 Y2:495

. . .is just a feature I don't have.

771

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17:15,269 -- 01:17:18,386 X1:209 X2:509 Y1:431 Y2:495

Maybe you have to

convince yourseIf first.

772

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Maybe.

773

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17:20,229 -- 01:17:23,778 X1:151 X2:568 Y1:431 Y2:495

Maybe you have to ask yourseIf

why it's an obsession.

774

01:
17:24,229 -- 01:17:25,503 X1:274 X2:444 Y1:473 Y2:495

What's that?

775

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17:27,589 -- 01:17:30,262 X1:191 X2:528 Y1:431 Y2:495

I had this the other night,

after you Ieft.

776

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17:30,709 -- 01:17:33,018 X1:167 X2:551 Y1:474 Y2:495

It was made for me in Assisi.

777

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17:34,029 -- 01:17:36,020 X1:178 X2:540 Y1:469 Y2:495

I got it for my 7th birthday.

778

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''Francesca. ''

779

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17:42,149 -- 01:17:43,138 X1:310 X2:409 Y1:469 Y2:495

Keep it.

780

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18:08,629 -- 01:18:12,542 X1:115 X2:603 Y1:431 Y2:495

iA musician friend of Robert's/i

itold him of a place off the interstate./i

781

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18:12,989 -- 01:18:17,028 X1:170 X2:548 Y1:436 Y2:495

iA place, Robert assured me,/i

ino one I knew would see us./i

782

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Thank you.

783

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19:22,589 -- 01:19:24,068 X1:311 X2:407 Y1:474 Y2:495

Cheers.

784

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19:33,349 -- 01:19:35,624 X1:116 X2:602 Y1:469 Y2:495

What were you Iike as a young man?

785

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TroubIe.

786

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-Why?

-I just wondered.

787

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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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