Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1 Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested) Binding: DVD Brand: Warner Brothers EAN: 9780790729367 Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Full Screen, NTSC ISBN: 0790729369 Label: Warner Home Video Manufacturer: Warner Home Video Number Of Items: 1 Picture Format: Pan & Scan Publisher: Warner Home Video Region Code: 1 Release Date: March 26, 1997 Running Time: 135 minutes Studio: Warner Home Video Theatrical Release Date: June 02, 1995 Sales Rank: 7386 MPN: WARD13772D
Product Description: Robert kinkaid is a romantic drifter on his way to photograph a historic covered bridge in madison county iowa for national geographic. When he stops at a farmhouse to ask directions he meets francesca johnson whose passionate nature has long been denied. Their friendship turns into a tender four-day affair. Studio: Warner Home Video Release Date: 04/26/2005 Starring: Clint Eastwood Meryl Streep Run time: 135 minutes Rating: Pg13 Director: Clint Eastwood
Amazon.com essential video: Some called it a snooze-fest, while others tearfully clutched their Kleenex. In any case, Clint Eastwood was an unusual and (as it turned out) perceptive choice to direct and costar in this lush adaptation of Robert James Waller's phenomenally bestselling novel. Meryl Streep costars as Francesca, the lonely Iowa farmer's wife who is instantly attracted to Robert (Eastwood), the photographer from National Geographic who is in the area to photograph the bridges along Iowa's rural roadways. The two fall in love while Francesca's husband and children are away at a county fair, but the story's passion and lasting appeal derive from their decision to part forever after just a few brief days of intimate connection. Superbly acted with an emphasis on quiet, graceful moments of tender revelation, the film builds to a crescendo of powerful and conflicting emotions. Like David Lean's Brief Encounter (to which it bears marked similarities), The Bridges of Madison County is destined to become one of the classic movie love stories. --Jeff Shannon
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Rating: - read the book instead
Read the book instead... it's much much richer and better done. Clint is awesome... but the book simply is perfect!
Rating: - Love this movie
I have been trying to find the DVD in full screen for some time. It is the romantic classic of the 90's.
Rating: - One of the most romantic movies
This is a movie you want to cuddle up with your lover and watch it over and over. Be ready to shall some tears. I love this movie.
Rating: - A love postcard for Iowa!
"Madison bridge county" was for Eastwood a truly turning point along the films of his successful career.
This romantic movie has a factor so crucial that becomes the main strength. The presence ... Read More
Rating: - repeat viewings required
This is a film that I first dismissed as corny, but as time has passed I can now appreciate the struggles of the protagonists in middle-age angst, tempted by the overwhelming feelings that love can bring. The ... Read More
- read the book instead
- Love this movie