The Bridges of Madison County DELUXE EDITION
by Clint Eastwood
List Price:
Our Price: $5.64
You Save: $9.34 (62%)
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Buy Used: from $4.65 (click here)
Category: DVD
See more DVD details
Buy this DVD movie at online store in your country
Canada
Canada
DVD details
Actor: Clint Eastwood, Debra Monk, Jim Haynie, Meryl Streep, Phyllis LyonsDirector: Clint Eastwood
Brand: Warner Brothers
Cinematographer: Jack N. Green
Composer: Lennie Niehaus
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: Color, DVD, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.85:1
Running Time: 134 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2008-05-06
Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Studio: Warner Home Video
Product features:
- World-traveling National Geographic photographer Robert Kincaid and Iowa housewife Francesca Johnson aren't looking to turn their lives upside down. Each is at a point in life where expectations are behind them. Yet four days after meeting, they wont want to lose the love they've found.Academy Award winners' Meryl Streep (earning her 10th Oscar nomination for this performance) and Clint Eastwood (
DVD Reviews of The Bridges of Madison County DELUXE EDITION
DVD Review: It Just Left No Impression
Summary: 2 Stars
Times like this I wish there were a way Amazon could allow us to specify when a product is a gift, which means the giver may not actually have viewed the product. In this case, although I did indeed purchase the DVD as a birthday present to my fraternal twin sister, I had watched the movie some years back and despite its two well-established stars, the movie itself made no impression on me, and I have no desire to see it again. I recall Eastwood was playing a photographer, and wanted to photograph a covered bridge, which was reflected in the title, but I cannot recall how Streep's character fit in with that, or the relationship that must have sprung up between the two. The relatiohship between H.G. Wells and Amy in Time After Time was much more intriguing and interesting to me.
DVD Review: Love love love this movie. So romantic
Summary: 5 Stars
There's something nostalgic and simple about this film. I don't believe in adultery by any means but I wanted these characters to stay together. DVD Review: another word on this great film
Summary: 5 Stars
So many people have talked about the two principles, and not only the actors' great performances, but the choices the two main characers make, that no more needs to be said about that. For me, a huge portion of the poignance of this film is the fact that their story is framed by the story of her two children, and how they grow from learning about their mother. The scene at the end where they're at the bridge with her ashes is sure to make you cry, if you haven't already. Her honesty with them after her death is her final gift to them, as was her decision to stay, and their willingness at the end to honor her wish is their final gift to her. It's quite beautiful, and redeems her sacrifice. It's what they should mean when they call something an "adult" film. This is truly an adult film. DVD Review: Once in every life....someone comes along
Summary: 5 Stars
Closeup on a mailbox: Mr. and Mrs. Richard Johnson. Behind it, a dusty road leading through green fields, a minivan coming towards the camera and a pan over towards an isolated farmhouse. It's the present, and Michael and Carolyn have come to settle some issues regarding their mother's estate. It seems that their mother wanted her ashes scattered from a nearby covered bridge, which startles her two grown kids, particularly the seemingly very conservative and religious Michael. Turns out that Francesca had her reasons, as they find out when they open her cedar chest and turn to the diaries contained within...
Late summer 1965, and Francesca, an Iowa housewife in her mid-40s is seeing her husband and kids off to the Illinois State Fair. They'll be gone for 5 days and she'll have little to do but be bored in a different way than she usually is, until the arrival the next morning of a lost National Geographic photographer, Robert Kincaid (Clint Eastwood). Kincaid is on assignment to photograph the covered bridges that the county is famed for, and Francesca tries to tell him the way to the Roseman bridge but quickly decides to show him the way personally instead. As they drive towards the bridge and make small talk, they seem uneasy at first - but when Robert mentions Francesca's accent, and she finds that he has visited the town where she grew up in Italy, something starts to click. He reaches for a cigarette from the glove compartment and brushes her leg...later he picks flowers for her....they have the same favorite radio station, playing blues and jazz. Francesca starts to see something special, exotic....Robert sees someone warm and real, centered but more than the simple housewife that she's let herself become.
So begins four days of falling in love, four days of uncertainty, secretive glances, shyness turning to boldness, feelings long-buried in both reawakened and examined by two people smart enough to know right away how problematic an affair can be, yet willing to cast aside the doubts and damn the consequences. For now. The brilliance of The Bridges of Madison County isn't in any kind of originality, and it isn't in the bits of Waller's strained prose that occasionally leech through LaGravenese's generally excellent screenplay; it isn't in Streep's accent, which I know some have problems with but which I barely even notice at this point; and it isn't in the framing story, which again has grown on me over time but is certainly not all that interesting itself. What makes the film magical is the chemistry, the feeling of absolute rightness between the two leads, and the slow building towards an inevitable yet still heartbreaking decision.
Clint Eastwood certainly must have seemed an odd choice to take on this film, which he co-produced and co-wrote the elegiac "Doe Eyes" theme for in addition to directing and starring - even to me, a big fan already at the time, it seemed odd. Robert Redford seemed to be everybody's idea of Kincaid, and Steven Spielberg got mentioned often as a possible director, but I doubt many people will have problems after they see the film. Eastwood's Robert is a sensitive guy, but he's not schmaltzy, a poetic man but not pretentious about it, and a man clearly as unsure about the concept of love and the kind of risk he puts himself into as the married Francesca. He's a traveler and a loner, but deep down there's something missing, something we can feel almost from the beginning, something seen in the long gaze out the window near the end, and as he stands in the rain, waiting and hoping, at the film's emotional climax. And Eastwood the director keeps things from getting out of hand sentimentally until the last half hour, when both he and the audience know it's time for the tears to flow.
But as good as Clint is - and this is surely one of his two or three best performances - Meryl Streep is just a marvel here. Overlook the accent - whether you like it or not, it really isn't terribly important here - and you see a less mannered, more natural performance than she's given anywhere else. She mentions a couple of times in the making-of piece that accompanies the film on DVD that she was uncertain at first of Eastwood's quick shooting style, but it does wonders for her, giving a spontaneity that she really needed for the role. So much of the film relies on us believing that these are two hesitant, uncertain people with a yearning that at first has no direction - it can't seem studied, and it doesn't. And for a film that is set mostly in a kitchen and around barn-like red covered bridges, there's an excitement and intensity that can't be matched in most romances shot under the Eiffel Tower or in front of the Golden Gate Bridge. The technical aspects - Jack N. Green's lovely September-October photography and the wonderful Eastwood-chosen musical mixture of Johnny Hartman and Dinah Washington, among others - are just about perfect as well.
What the film ultimately builds to - and much of it is on Streep's shoulders - is a powerful examination of regret and loss and a determination that there are no perfect choices in life, only choices that involve different kinds of sacrifices. The film doesn't comment on the rightness or wrongness of her adultery, but Francesca lets her kids know that whatever she's done, she's not going to beat herself up over it - and neither should they. At the end, we know that whatever choice she made would have been difficult, would have involved hurting herself and others; there's no easy answer, only a bit of hope for the next generation, as they at least have come to accept and understand, and Francesca's ashes scatter on the wind....
NOTE ON THE DVD: The transfer on this 2008 "special edition" DVD is very nice and the aspect ratio correct - really essential to this tightly-shot film. Good if a little over-effusive commentary by cinematographer Jack Green and editor Joel Cox and a nice little making-of featurette.
DVD Review: Love Story For All Time!!
Summary: 5 Stars
The most wonderful love story ever to hit the screen in my opinion!! It has moving moments in every scene!! A must see!! Grab a kleenex!!
Description of The Bridges of Madison County DELUXE EDITION
World-traveling National Geographic photographer Robert Kincaid and Iowa housewife Francesca Johnson aren't looking to turn their lives upside down. Each is at a point in life where expectations are behind them. Yet four days after meeting they wont want to lose the love they've found. Academy Award winners' Meryl Streep (earning her 10th Oscar nomination for this performance) and Clint Eastwood (who also produces and directs) bring blazing starpower and powerful conviction to the beloved characters of Robert James Waller's best seller of love choice and consequence. With luck a love like that happens to some of us sooner or later. For Robert and Francesca it was later. And it was glorious.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre:?DRAMA/LOVE & ROMANCE UPC:?883929029419 Manufacturer No:?1000040475General DVDs
DVD Video
- Action & Adventure
- African American Cinema
- Animation
- Anime & Manga
- Art House & International
- Classics
- Comedy
- Cult Movies
- Documentary
- Drama
- Educational
- Fitness & Yoga
- Gay & Lesbian
- Horror
- Kids & Family
- Military & War
- Music Video & Concerts
- Musicals & Performing Arts
- Mystery & Suspense
- Science Fiction & Fantasy
- Special Interests
- Sports
- Television
- Westerns
Bestsellers in General DVDs
Twilight (Two-Disc Special Edition)Universal; Release date: 2009-03-21; DVD
Best price: $15.88
Price in other shops:
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (Full-Screen Edition)Release date: 2009-12-08; DVD
Best price: $9.99
Price in other shops:
Lost: The Complete Fifth SeasonRelease date: 2009-12-08; DVD
Best price: $36.99
Price in other shops:
The Proposal (Single Disc Widescreen)BUENA VISTA HOME VIDEO; Release date: 2009-10-13; DVD
Best price: $8.99
Price in other shops:
![Angels & Demons [Blu-ray] Image](/images/Angels-Demons-Blu-ray-B002O5M4SU-X.jpg)
Angels & Demons [Blu-ray]SONY PICTURES HOME ENT; Release date: 2009-11-24; DVD
Best price: $18.90
Price in other shops:
Four ChristmasesNEW LINE HOME VIDEO; Release date: 2009-11-24; DVD
Best price: $12.66
Price in other shops:
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (Two-Disc Limited Special Edition + Digital Copy)Warner Brothers; Release date: 2009-12-08; DVD
Best price: $19.99
Price in other shops:
Julie & JuliaRelease date: 2009-12-08; DVD
Best price: $9.99
Price in other shops:
Angels & Demons (Single-Disc Theatrical Edition)SONY PICTURES HOME ENT; Release date: 2009-11-24; DVD
Best price: $11.99
Price in other shops:
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (Widescreen Edition)Warner Brothers; Release date: 2009-12-08; DVD
Best price: $9.99
Price in other shops:
Similar DVDs, VHS Video, Audio CDs
"...First Do No Harm"Buena Vista Home Video; Release date: 2002-09-03; DVD
Best price: $4.98
Price in other shops:
Before and AfterDisney; Release date: 2004-04-06; DVD
Best price: $9.03
Price in other shops:
A Thousand Country Roadsby Robert James Waller
Grand Central Publishing; Published: 2003-04-01; Mass Market Paperback; Book
Best price: $3.52
Price in other shops:
Postcards from the EdgeSTREEP,MERYL; Release date: 2001-05-01; DVD
Best price: $5.21
Price in other shops:
Heart BurnPar; Release date: 2004-07-06; DVD
Best price: $5.40
Price in other shops:
A Cry in the DarkSTREEP,MERYL; Release date: 1999-12-21; DVD
Best price: $0.79
Price in other shops:
Sophie's ChoiceSTREEP,MERYL; Release date: 1998-04-21; DVD
Best price: $5.08
Price in other shops:
Falling in LoveDE NIRO,ROBERT; Release date: 2002-01-15; DVD
Best price: $5.34
Price in other shops:
The Bridges Of Madison County: Music From The Motion PictureWarner Brothers; Release date: 1995-05-30; Music CD
Best price: $4.98
Price in other shops:
The Bridges of Madison Countyby Robert James Waller
Grand Central Publishing; Published: 1995-09-01; Mass Market Paperback; Book
Best price: $3.15
Price in other shops: