The Bridges of Madison County

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Actors: Clint Eastwood , Meryl Streep , Debra Monk , Annie Corley , Jim Haynie , Victor Slezak , Michelle Benes , Phyllis Lyons , Christopher Kroon , R.E. 'Stick' Faessler , Brandon Bobst , Sarah Kathryn Schmitt , Pearl Faessler , Alison Wiegert , Richard Lage

Director: Clint Eastwood

IMDB Rate: 7.2 out of 10 (20298 votes)

Plot Summary:The path of Francesca Johnsons 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 hes 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 Francescas will and all the contents which produces a key to her hope chest in the bedroom which contained some of hers and Roberts things. The message they take from the diaries is to what you what you have to do to be happy in life. After learning that Robert Kincaids cremated remains were scattered off Roseman Bridge and that their mother requested that she too be cremated and her ashes to be scattered off Roseman Bridge, the children must decide whether to honor their mothers final wishes or bury her alongside their father as the family had planned. Adapted from the novel by Robert James Waller, this is the story of a special love that happens just once in a lifetime -- if youre lucky.