Stone Bridge - "Bridges of Madison County"
N 41° 19.808 W 094° 00.283
15T E 415923 N 4575892
Francesca(Meryl Streep) and Robert(Clint Eastwood)spend a day to themselves stopping at this stone bridge
Waymark Code: WM9F1K
Location: Iowa, United States
Date Posted: 08/11/2010
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Wikipedia The Bridges of Madison
Wikipedia
The Bridges of Madison County is a 1995 American romantic drama film based on
the best-selling novel by Robert James Waller. It was produced by Amblin
Entertainment and Malpaso Productions, and distributed by Warner Bros.. The film
was produced and directed by Clint Eastwood with Kathleen Kennedy as co-producer
and the screenplay was adapted by Richard LaGravenese. The film stars Eastwood
and Meryl Streep, who was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress in
1996 for her performance in the film.
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 shoot 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
and they are stunned by it.
In this screen shot Robert (Clint Eastwood) and Francesca (Meryl Streep)
spend a day in the country by the stone bridge
Later on in the film Francesca comes back to the bridge every year on her
birthday to relive their memories
Here is a photo of the stone bridge from my trip to Winterset Iowa
Although in the movie they were have supposed to travel out of town the bridge
is actually right in Winterset Park
Memorable Quotes
"The old dreams were good dreams; they
didn't work out, but glad I had
them"
"I realized love won't obey our expectations. Its mystery is pure and
absolute. What Robert and I had could not continue if we were together. What
Richard and I shared would vanish if we were apart. But how I wanted to share
this. How would our lives have changed if I had? Could anyone else have seen the
beauty of it?"
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