Madison County is Eastwood's gift to women: to Francesca, to all the girls he's loved before -- and to Streep, who alchemizes literary mawkishness into intelligent movie passion.
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10/27/08
The Bridges of Madison County (1995)
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Average Rating:7.7/10
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Top CriticGiven the intelligent restraint of the treatment, this is about as fine an adaptation of this material as one could hope for...
06/23/08
Top CriticLimited by the vapidity of this material while he trims its excesses with the requisite machete, Mr. Eastwood locates a moving, elegiac love story at the heart of Mr. Waller's self-congratulatory overkill.
05/17/04
Top CriticWhat the movie does that the book couldn't do is tap into the poignancy that comes of seeing two stars who used to be young and beautiful suddenly looking very mortal.
06/18/02
Top CriticScreenwriter LaGravenese ought to get the Croix de Guerre for doing battle with Waller's fatuous prose and paring Bridges down to its most appealing fantasy romance essence.
02/13/01
Top CriticThe Bridges of Madison County is a beautiful film, not only in the way it was photographed, but for the manner through which the characters are revealed to us.
01/01/00
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I've seen the movie twice now and was even more involved the second time, because I was able to pay more attention to the nuances of voice and gesture.
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