Mr. & Mrs. Bridge

Name: Mr. & Mrs. Bridge
Genre: Drama
Released: November 23, 1990
Duration: 126 min
Rating: 73
Cast: Joanne Woodward, Paul Newman

1990

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Miramax Films | Release Date: November 23, 1990 | PG-13

Starring: Joanne Woodward, Paul Newman

Summary: Set after World War I, India and Walter Bridge (Joanne Woodward and Paul Newman) find their values clashing with their three children.

Director: James Ivory

Genre(s): Drama

Rating: PG-13

Runtime: 126 min

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Jonathan Rosenbaum

This deserves to be seen and cherished for at least a couple of reasons: first for Joanne Woodward's exquisitely multilayered and nuanced performance as India Bridge, a frustrated, well-to-do WASP Kansas City housewife and mother during the 30s and 40s; and second for screenwriter Ruth Prawer Jhabvala's retention of much of the episodic, short-chapter form of the books. Read full review

TV Guide Magazine Staff (Not Credited)

What fills the screen is not heightened melodrama, but a series of stark, sometimes painfully poignant vignettes that reflect the oppressive stasis of their lives. Read full review

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Mr. & Mrs. Bridge is an affecting study of an uppercrust Midwestern family in the late 1930s. Read full review

Peter Travers

The film is dawdling, sometimes maddeningly so, but Newman and Woodward deliver lovingly detailed and bruisingly true performances that not only command attention but richly reward it. Read full review

Owen Gleiberman

Mr. & Mrs. Bridge is watchable but also stiff and remote. Read full review

Hal Hinson

It's respectful but not particularly vigorous or enlightening. Read full review

Empire Monty Smith

It's hard to imagine that even a documentary on the apparently harmonious marriage of Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward -a union established in 1958 and still going strong - could be duller than this stodgy addition to the Merchant-Ivory menu of good taste. Read full review

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