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...Clint Eastwood didn't hate the novel. What he loathed were several early-draft screenplays based on it. They tried to flesh out Robert James Waller's slight narrative with flashbacks and fantasy sequences, and one of them even imposed a conventional happy ending on it, in which the most famously sundered lovers of our time, roving photographer Robert Kincaid and farm wife Francesca Johnson, were reunited in Katmandu. Eastwood also fell into mutually uncompromising disagreement with the original director, Bruce Beresford, about casting the feminine lead. He told the producers he would move on if these problems weren...
Movies based on popular novels are usually doomed before they start, since millions of readers have already cast and filmed the movie in their heads. And director Clint Eastwood's reticent style is the antithesis of Robert James Waller's romantic tale of middle-age passion. As a result, the film version of "Bridges" is rather different. TIME's Corliss describes a brooding romantic fantasy and a meditation on the anticipation and consequences of passion. Eastwood's generosity as a director and Meryl Streep's remarkable performance, says Corliss, "alchemize literary mawkishness into intelligent movie passion...
Most Exotic Accent: A tie, between the obscure one used by Robin Williams as an obstetrician in Nine Months and the Italianate vocalizing of Meryl Streep as the lonely wife romanced by Clint Eastwood in The Bridges of Madison County...
...them. For the most part in this film, they do admirably well. McDermott is an impossible position, being on-screen for most of the movie and doing the same things over, and over but he gets a lot of mileage from the emotional intensity that worked for him as Clint Eastwood's partner in "In the Line of Fire...
...colleague (Kevin Spacey, who is very good) and plucky Major Salt to steer Sam through an unlikely airplane battle at the climax. But in movies like this, a man must stand alone. It's a mild hoot to watch Certified Great Actor Hoffman play an action hero. Note the Clint-like glint in his eyes, the terse authority he gives such endearingly daft phrases as "Idiocy is our only option...