The Bridges of Madison County Page #2

Synopsis: The path of Francesca Johnson's future seems destined when an unexpected fork in the road causes her to question everything she had come to expect from life. While her husband and children are away at the Illinois state fair in the summer of 1965, Robert Kincaid happens turn into the Johnson farm and asks Francesca for directions to Roseman Bridge. Francesca later learns that he was in Iowa on assignment from National Geographic magazine. She is reluctant seeing that he's a complete stranger and then she agrees to show him to the bridges and gradually she talks about her life from being a war-bride from Italy which sets the pace for this bittersweet and all-too-brief romance of her life. Through the pain of separation from her secret love and the stark isolation she feels as the details of her life consume her, she writes her thoughts of the four-day love affair which took up three journals. The journals are found by her children after the lawyer was going over Francesca's will and all
Genre: Drama, Romance
Director(s): Clint Eastwood
Production: Warner Bros.
  Nominated for 1 Oscar. Another 6 wins & 14 nominations.
 
IMDB:
7.6
Metacritic:
66
Rotten Tomatoes:
89%
PG-13
Year:
1995
135 min
3,602 Views


She say anything in there about me?

About Ieaving me anything?

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No.

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What's going on?

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We were just wondering

if it might be better. . .

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. . .if CaroIyn and I

Iooked at this stuff ourseIves.

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We don't want to keep you

waiting around.

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I'II contact your office

about the IegaI work.

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''I struggIe to. . .

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. . .put it together in a way

that aIIows me to continue. . .

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. . .knowing that we're

on separate roads.

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But then, I Iook through the Iens

of my camera and you're there.

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I start to write an articIe

and I find myseIf writing it to you.

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It's cIear to me now that we

have been moving towards each other. . .

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. . .towards those 4 days,

aII of our Iives. ''

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I don't want to hear anymore.

Burn the damn thing.

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I don't want to hear it.

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Throw it away.

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What's he saying now?

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He just goes on about how

if Mom ever needed him. . .

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. . .she couId reach him through the

NationaI Geographic Magazine in D.C.

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He was a photographer.

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He promises not to write again.

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And then, aII it says is:

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''I Iove you, Robert. ''

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Robert!

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Jesus!

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I'II kiII him.

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Richard LaGravenese

Richard LaGravenese (born October 30, 1959) is an American screenwriter and film director, best known as the writer of The Fisher King. more…

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