The Bridges of Madison County Page #16

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
Production: Warner Bros.
  Nominated for 1 Oscar. Another 6 wins & 14 nominations.
 
IMDB:
7.6
Metacritic:
66
Rotten Tomatoes:
89%
PG-13
Year:
1995
135 min
3,802 Views


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i8 days ago, he'd done that.../i

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i...and his arm had/i

ibrushed across my leg./i

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iA week ago I'd been in Des Moines,/i

ibuying a new dress./i

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That truck's a Iong way from home.

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Washington State.

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I'II bet it's that photographer

they taIked about at the caf.

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What's he waiting for?

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Come on!

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iOh, no!/i

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iThe words were inside of me./i

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i''I was wrong, Robert, to stay,/i

ibut I can 't go./i

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iLet me tell you again/i

iwhy I can 't go./i

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iTell me again why I should go. ''/i

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iI heard his voice coming back to me:/i

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i''This kind of certainty comes/i

ionce in a lifetime. ''/i

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What's wrong, Franny?

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WiII you pIease teII me what's wrong?

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I just need a minute.

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Dad, you bought the wrong feed!

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iI was grateful for the/i

isilence that night./i

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iI realized/i

ilove won 't obey our expectations./i

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iIts mystery is pure and absolute./i

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iWhat Robert and I had.../i

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i...could not continue/i

iif we were together./i

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iAnd what Richard and I shared/i

iwould vanish if we were apart./i

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iBut how I wanted to share this!/i

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iHow would our lives have changed/i

iif I had?/i

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iCould anyone else have seen/i

ithe beauty of it?/i

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I'm Francesca Johnson.

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And I. . . .

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I feeI awfuI that I haven't visited

sooner. Is it a bad time?

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Am I interrupting anything?

Is it too Iate?

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No, not at aII.

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iWe became inseparable,/i

iLucy and I./i

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The funny thing is, I didn't teII her

about Robert untiI years Iater.

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But for some reason,

being with her. . .

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. . .somehow made me feeI. . .

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. . .it was safe to think about him. . .

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. . .to continue Ioving him.

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This town Ioved taIking

about the two of us, but we didn't care.

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And neither did your father.

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It's time.

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Is better?

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Is better.

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Franny.

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I just want to say. . .

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. . .I know you had your own dreams.

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I'm sorry I couIdn't give them to you.

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I Iove you so very much.

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iAfter your father died,/i

iI tried to get in touch with Robert.../i

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i...but he had left National Geographic./i

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iNo one seemed to know where he was./i

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iMy only connections to him/i

iwere the places we'd been that day./i

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iAnd so, each year on my birthday.../i

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i...I'd revisit them./i

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iThen one day,/i

iI received a letter from his attorney.../i

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i... with a package./i

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iThere has not been a day since/i

ithat I have not thought of him./i

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iWhen he said that we were no longer/i

i2 people, he was right./i

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iBound together as tightly as/i

i2 people can be./i

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iIf it hadn 't been for him.../i

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i...I could not have lasted on the farm/i

iall those years./i

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iRemember my dress you wanted, Carolyn?/i

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iThe one you said I never wore?/i

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iI know I was silly.../i

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i...but it was like you wanted/i

ito wear my wedding dress to the movies./i

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iAfter reading all this.../i

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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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