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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
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I don't want to hear it.
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Throw it away.
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What's he saying now?
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He just goes on about how
if Mom ever needed him. . .
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. . .she couId reach him through the
NationaI Geographic Magazine in D.C.
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He was a photographer.
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He promises not to write again.
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And then, aII it says is:
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''I Iove you, Robert. ''
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Robert!
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Jesus!
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I'II kiII him.
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That wouId be some trick. He's dead.
That's what this Ietter is. . .
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. . .from his attorney.
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He Ieft most of his things to Mom.
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And requested. . . .
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What?
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That he be cremated and his ashes
thrown off Roseman Bridge.
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Damn him! I knew Mom
wouIdn't have thought that up herseIf.
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It was some damn perverted. . .
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. . .photographic mind infIuencing her.
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When did the bastard die?
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'82.
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Wait a minute, that was. . .
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. . .3 years after Daddy. . . .
Do you think. . .?
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I don't know!
I'm compIeteIy in the dark.
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That's what I get for moving away.
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We were kids when this happened.
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I can't beIieve it.
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Do you think that she. . .
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. . .had sex with him?
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Must be nice inside your head
with Peter Pan and the Easter Bunny.
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Don't taIk to me Iike that.
She was my mother!
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Now I find that she was. . . .
She was a. . . .
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A what?
Don't say that!
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What am I supposed to think?
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I can't beIieve she never toId me.
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We spoke at Ieast once a week.
How couId she do that?
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When did she meet him?
Did Dad know?
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Is there anything eIse in that enveIope?
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No, I don't think so.
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You read it.
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You read it.
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''January, 1 987.
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Dear CaroIyn:
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I hope you read this with MichaeI.
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I'm sure he wouIdn't be abIe
to read it by himseIf. . .
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. . .and he'II need heIp
understanding aII this.
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First and most of aII. . .
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. . .I Iove you both very much.
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And aIthough I feeI fine,
I thought I'd put my affairs. . .
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. . .excuse that word, in order. ''
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I can't beIieve she's making jokes.
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''After going through
the safe deposit box. . .
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. . .I'm sure you'II find your way
to this Ietter.
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It's hard to write this
to my own chiIdren.
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I couId Iet this die
with the rest of me, I suppose.
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But as one gets oIder. . .
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. . .one's fears subside.
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What becomes more and more important. . .
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. . .is to be known.
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Known for aII that you were
during this brief stay.
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How sad it seems to Ieave this earth. . .
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. . .without those you Iove the most
ever reaIIy knowing who you were.
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It's easy for a mother to Iove
her chiIdren, no matter what.
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I don't know
if it's as simpIe for chiIdren.
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You're aII so busy being angry
at us for raising you wrong.
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His name was Robert Kincaid.
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He was a photographer
and he was here in 1 965. . .
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. . .shooting a NationaI Geographic
articIe. . .

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