The Bridges of Madison County

The Bridges of Madison County (1995) was Eastwood’s effective mounting of the enormously popular novel by Robert James Waller. Eastwood was excellent as a photographer traveling through Iowa for a magazine piece on its historic covered bridges, and Meryl Streep played a farmer’s wife who,…

…in attracting tourists to Iowa—namely, The Bridges of Madison County (1995) and The Field of Dreams (1989), the latter of which starred Kevin Costner and was partly filmed on a baseball diamond sculpted into a cornfield in Dyersville, about 25 miles (40 km) west of Dubuque. Today the field is…

She gave memorable performances in The Bridges of Madison County (1995), Marvin’s Room (1996), One True Thing (1998), and The Hours (2002).

…was the basis for the blockbuster 1995 movie of the same title, starring Clint Eastwood and Meryl Streep.