The Bridges of Madison County

Photographer Robert Kincaid wanders into the life of housewife Francesca Johnson, for four days in the 1960s.

• Director:Clint Eastwood
• Genre:Drama / Romance
• Runtime:129 minutes

Cast

Clint Eastwood : Robert Kincaid
Meryl Streep : Francesca Johnson
Annie Corley : Carolyn Johnson
Victor Slezak : Michael Johnson
Jim Haynie : Richard Johnson

The film is set in the summer of 1965. It tells the story of Francesca (Meryl Streep), a lonely, insightful Italian housewife in Iowa. While her husband and children are away at the Illinois State Fair, she meets and falls in love with a photographer (Clint Eastwood) who has come to Madison County, Iowa to create a photographic essay for National Geographic on the covered bridges in the area. The four days they spend together are a turning point in her life and she writes of her experience in a diary which is discovered by her children after her death. Read more

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