Bridges of Madison County

UPC: 883929107797

Studio: Warner Home Video

MPAA Rating: PG13   Contains:[Adult Situations, Questionable for Children, Adult Language, Sexual Situations]

Summary: The brief, illicit love affair between an Iowa housewife and a post-middle-age free-lance photographer is chronicled in this powerful romance based on the best-selling novella by Robert James Waller. The story begins as globetrotting National Geographic photographer Robert Kincaid journeys to Madison County in 1965 to film its lovely covered bridges. Upon his arrival, he stops by an old farmhouse to ask directions. There he encounters housewife, Francesca Johnson, whose spouse and two children are out of town. Thus begins their four-day affair, a liaison that fundamentally changes them both. Later Francesca chronicles the affair in a diary which her flabbergasted grown children read; never would they have expected their mother to be capable of the passion she experienced with Kincaid. ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi

Category: Romance

Awards: Best Actress – Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture - Drama – null Best Picture - Drama – null Best Actress – Screen Actors Guild Best Cinematography – American Society of Cinematographers Best Picture - Drama – Hollywood Foreign Press Association Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture - Drama – Hollywood Foreign Press Association

Features: Commentary by editor Joel Cox and director of photography Jack N. Green
An Old-Fashioned Love Story: The Making of the Bridges of Madison County
Doe Eyes music video
Theatrical trailer

Bridges of Madison County

Format: Digital Video Disc (DVD)

Release Date: 06/01/2010

Audio: DD5.1 Dolby Digital 5.1

Runtime: 134 Minutes

Sides: 1

Number of Discs: 1

Language(s) English,French

Subtitles: English,French

Region: USA & territories, Canada

Chapters: Disc #1 -- The Bridges of Madison County
1. Last Wishes and Revelations [5:49]
2. What Only Francesca Knew [3:10]
3. Known for All You Were [3:37]
4. Sunday Evening in 1965 [4:32]
5. Directions to a Bridge [3:33]
6. From Italy to Iowa [3:44]
7. Prep Work [4:25]
8. Dreams You're Glad Of [7:44]
9. Kitchen Chores [3:10]
10. Loving What You Do [5:33]
11. To Ancient Evenings [3:47]
12. Anything But Simple [5:20]
13. Invitation [3:48]
14. Eyes on Lucy Redfield [2:16]
15. Not Worried [2:10]
16. Holliwell Bridge [2:35]
17. Intensely Erotic [2:02]
18. Tell Me Now [1:57]
19. You Make Me Forget Myself [6:21]
20. Keepsake [3:37]
21. Jazz Joint [2:01]
22. My Surprising Mother [4:06]
23. Making My Way Here [4:36]
24. Another Invitation [7:17]
25. Francesca's Choice [2:25]
26. Safe Within Details [8:27]
27. Uncertain in the Rain [2:38]
28. Grateful for Silence [6:34]
29. Apology [2:03]
30. Legacy in a Box [2:17]
31. Words of Healing [4:06]
32. Go Well, My Children [2:24]
33. End Credits [1:18]

Keith Phipps

A far better film than it really has any right to be, Clint Eastwood's adaptation of Robert James Waller's bestselling novel converts a breathlessly overwrought piece of writing into a moving melodrama in the classic mold. Though it starts badly and comes to a halt every time it returns to its modern day framing device, whenever the film concentrates on the illicit romance of Eastwood and Streep -- which is most of the film -- it serves as a model of understated direction and unimpeachable performances. An unlikely pairing of acting styles, Eastwood and Streep perfectly embody their unlikely lovers. Playing a woman realizing for the first time that she might not be resigned to a life of underappreciated boredom, Streep strikes the right note of nervousness and ecstasy. But unlike its most immediate model, Brief Encounter, since it dwells equally on both lovers, the film turns on Eastwood's performance. Here he transforms his character from a figure of fantasy into a fully-realized man who slowly recognizes his own unspoken loneliness. Though the film's final act drags on well past its emotional climax, as a director Eastwood -- working from a script by Richard LaGravenese -- elsewhere avoids indulgence and always stays away from overt sentimentality, allowing his film to work as a heartbreaking story of hard choices and unrealized dreams. ~ Keith Phipps, Rovi

Cast and Crew: David Gilbert  Actor 
Kyle Eastwood  Actor 
Phyllis Lyons  Actor 
Debra Monk  Actor 
George Orrison  Actor 
Clint Eastwood  Director 
Clint Eastwood  Producer 
Kathleen Kennedy  Producer 
Richard LaGravenese  Screenwriter 
Lennie Niehaus  Composer (Music Score) 
Clint Eastwood  Actor 
Meryl Streep  Actor 
Annie Corley  Actor 
Victor Slezak  Actor 
Jim Haynie  Actor 

Country: USA