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It's hard to see any effort in the film. There's no comedy to speak of, no real drama and, worst of all.

The film creates a perfect balance between action and depth of basic needs, in the midst of an infertile atmosphere.

The best films of this genre always show a path and provide a takeaway for being a better person.

Anyone who has been struck by the lightning bolt of an affair that came out of nowhere will identify 100% with this one. I had read the book many years ago, but never seen the film until this year (2018). Eastwood really has produced a classic masterpiece. As others have said, the (over)acting by the son which really grates a bit, but after the 'flash forward ' shots of his the relief and enjoyment of getting back to the sensitivity and passion of the affair is all the more enjoyable. The fact this film is still fresh and grips one's attention after nearly 25 years speaks volumes.

Streep delivers a fantastic and convincing performance full of subtlety...but the film is paced extremely slow and the flow is constantly broken by the jarring transitions to her present day children reading her diary. The acting in those sequences is strikingly bad and destroys any sense of immersion in the story. A cut of this film without those sequences would be at least one star higher...maybe more since I cannot truly tell if I would have been more drawn into the story without them.

The Bridges Of Madison County (1995)Plot In A Paragraph: Photographer Robert Kincaid (Eastwood) wanders into the life of housewife Francesca Johnson (An Oscar Nominated Meryl Streep) for four days in the 1960s.I can think of this movie without remembering a viscous fight with my childhood sweetheart!! As we got in to a heated argument just before we went in to see the movie!! I sat through the full movie in a foul mood, and I hated it!! I didn't rewatch it till last year!! It just goes to show how your mood can effect your enjoyment of a movie. I don't expect many here to have seen this movie, but I think it's wonderfully absorbing. The one nit pick I have is the scenes with Francesca's children in present day, slow it down and the movie is less interesting when they are on the screen.The Bridges Of Madison County grossed $71 million at the domestic box office to end 1995 as the 21st highest grossing movie of the year.

WOW! This is one hell of a movie! Streep of course SHINES in her lead role as the unhappy, unsatisfied, unappreciated wife who meets Clint Eastwood while her husband is away and falls deeply in love. The performances given by Eastwood and Streep are two of the best acting performances I've ever seen in film. The accent, the frustration, the love, and the raw emotion is all captured unbelievably well by Meryl Streep. And Clint Eastwood tackles the drifter in love role well, it doesn't even seem like he's trying, it just feels so natural and real that it's hard to believe he's an actor playing a part. The chemistry is undeniably electric! Very natural romantic chemistry combined with their acting is really what makes this movie work so well. The writing is so well done too, it reaches out and grabs you, it really makes you feel like you're in the story. There are some movies that you feel they're excluding the audience, but this one really makes you feel so hard for these characters, it will matter to you what happens to them. I really liked the way they did two separate stories two, one in current day and the other in the past. Sort of reminded me of the notebook in a way. I love this film for the simple reason that it makes you feel things that just warms you up, you will feel good watching this. Now that doesn't mean that it's all butterflies and rainbows all throughout the film because it's not, it just means that the filmmakers do an impeccable job at making you care/feel for these people. I 100% suggest the bridges of Madison county! It's an incredible experience watching it.