The Bridges of Madison County | 
| Director: Clint Eastwood
Actors: Clint Eastwood, Meryl Streep, Phyllis Lyons, Debra Monk, Jim Haynie
Studio: Warner Home Video
Category: DVD
List Price: $14.98
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Rating:  16 reviews
Sales Rank: 1155
Format: Color, Dvd, Widescreen, Ntsc
Language: English (Original Language)
Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Region: 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Number Of Discs: 1
Running Time: 134 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6
MPN: 1000040475
UPC: 883929029419
EAN: 0883929029419
ASIN: B00197YZ7M
Theatrical Release Date: 1995
Release Date: May 6, 2008
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Product Description
A PROFESSIONAL PHOTOGRAPHER ON ASSIGNMENT FOR NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC MAGAZINE IN MADISON COUNTY, IOWA, HAS A CHANCE ENCOUNTER WITH A LONELY HOUSEWIFE WHICH CHANGES HIS LIFE.
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 Love Story For All Time!! June 7, 2009
Barbi Price (Trenton, GA USA)
The most wonderful love story ever to hit the screen in my opinion!! It has moving moments in every scene!! A must see!! Grab a kleenex!!
Good Buy June 3, 2009
Marie Huddleston (USA)
This movie was a gift for my mother because she loved it so much. I watched it myself and found it to be a good movie involving two very superior actors and a deep message. Overall a must watch.
For Me, Better the second time around April 30, 2009
Deb (Austin, Texas USA)
Growing up quite near The Bridges of Madison County, I found the book to be quite boring and the movie very laughable. In fact, I here publicly apologize to all the people crying in the theatre as I laughed out loud through out the entire movie.
Years later, due to a category in a Chick Flick book my daughter gave me, I purchased the DVD and watched it in the privacy of my own home.
With the second viewing I found the movie to be a beautiful story and quite entertaining. The first time, the decor, the characters, hit too close to home. For some reason I seemed to remember that Meryl Streep's character constantly using the "f" word. Now, growing up in the area, I found it hysterical that ANYONE could think a farm wife, in that era, no matter where she came from, would even know what that word meant!! As I said, now I have no idea where I came up with that after the first viewing.
Maybe I didn't like it the first time around because it did remind me too much of my home and my family. I had only been married a few years, no children at the time, and I am sure none of us want to consider our parent's having those kind of thoughts.
The second time I had been living in Texas longer than I had in Iowa, and have two grown children. Now I get it and see how it could be possible no matter where you live.
Truly this is a beautiful, endearing story of feelings I think we have all had at some time in our lives. SEE THIS MOVIE!! It is well worth it.
Eastwood's mature, intelligent, moving love story.... April 16, 2009
Grigory's Girl (NYC)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This film, a tender masterpiece, is an anomaly in Hollywood. It's a mature, intelligent, thoughtful, real romantic film, and in the end, sad and heartbreaking, but not despairing. Some have expressed surprise that Eastwood directed this film so well, but I'm not. Eastwood is a great film artist, one of the greatest working today, and he shows his sensitivity and brilliance in this film. This film reminds me of how surprised people were that David Lynch directed The Straight Story (a wonderful film in itself and one of the best of 1999). It's the same principle. Two artists, Lynch and Eastwood, are simply thwarting expectations and surprising their fans with a sincere, heartfelt movie. They do it all the time.
This film is also very mature and intelligent. It is not a chick flick where everything is wrapped up in dumb dialogue, dumb characters, and foolish situations. It is an honest film of two middle aged people who bond almost immediately and really fall in love. Eastwood and Streep (the Academy didn't nominate either of them) give wonderful performances, especially Streep. She's also drop dead gorgeous as well. The film unfolds at a beautiful, leisurely pace (like most Eastwood films).
The film also doesn't make any judgements on the lead characters. Streep's character is married, but she's very unhappy and bored, like many people who have been in a long term marriage. Eastwood's character is not a playboy, but someone who really reveals himself to Streep, something that's brave to do. There's also a powerful scene in a diner where another woman, who was caught having an affair and the small town knows about it, walks into a diner and everyone starts looking down on her. Except Eastwood's character, who offers her a seat next to his. There is not one ounce of moralising here. Clint shows people who are simply human, and it's beautiful.
The Bridges of Madison County is a story for adults, and considering it was made in 1995 (when idiotic teen comedies were polluting the multiplexes), it's even more of a treasure (I wished I had seen it then, the 90's was a rather poor decade overall for films, especially from Hollywood). Hollywood should do more adult romances, and not silly, vapid chick flicks. Chick flicks do more damage to romantics than realistic romance. I prefer my romances to be more grounded in reality and intelligence because there's just as much beauty there, and it's much more fullfilling than any vapid chick flick can offer. This is one of Eastwood's best, most unique films.
 dvdlegacy is a lousy seller April 3, 2009
Jay Weisenbach
0 out of 4 found this review helpful
Nothing to review. Never received my order. Emailed seller twice, no responce. Recieved email from seller 4/1/09 said item is being shipped, HaHa, must have been an "April Fools". Seller should be removed from Amazon. Buyers are being ripped off and nobody is doing anything about it.
Amazon should back their buyers and get them their purchase or get them a refund. Numerous complaints from other members. Very disappointed with Amazon.
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