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Format: DVD
May 2003
Rated PG-13
Recording Mode: (unknown)
Color
UPC: 786936205091 |
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Movie Description
Directed by James Ivory, MR. & MRS. BRIDGE stars Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward as Walter and India Bridge, a traditional couple living in Kansas City in the 1940s. The Bridges have three children: the strong-willed Ruth (Kyra Sedgwick); Douglas (Robert Sean Leonard), a carbon copy of his conservative father; and Caroline (Margaret Welsh), a college student and romantic. After years spent in a sheltered marriage, India is forced to reevaluate her long-standing values when her best friend, Grace (Blythe Danner), becomes disillusioned with their straitlaced social group. Simon Callow plays Dr. Alex Sauer, Walter's nemesis and a proponent of psychoanalysis. The movie is based on the novels of Evan Connell, skillfully rendering the author's perspective on deeply held American social mores and values.
Synopsis
India Bridge (Joanne Woodward) finds herself reexamining her values after years of a comfortable marriage and family life in this story set in 1940s Kansas. The film also stars Paul Newman and is directed by James Ivory (REMAINS OF THE DAY).
Film Notes
DVD Features:
Region 1
Keep Case
Interactive Features:
Scene Access
Interactive Menus
MR. & MRS. BRIDGE was screened at the Venice Film Festival in September 1990.
The movie was filmed on location in Kansas City, Missouri; Paris; and Ottawa, Canada.
Ismail Merchant and James Ivory became interested in the project after a dinner with Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward in which Woodward suggested Evan Connell’s novels as the subject of a film. Newman accepted the role of Walter Bridge after reading Ruth Prawer Jhabvala’s script, and the film was given financing by Cineplex Odeon.
A credit at the end of the film reads: "Shakespearean Tutor to Mr. Newman--Senator Bob Dole."
Ivory has said that MR. & MRS. BRIDGE, with its deeply American mores and values, was the film most closely associated with his own adolescence.
The film garnered an Academy Award nomination for Best Actress for Joanne Woodward.
Industry Reviews
"...[A] nuanced tragicomedy of manners....With Mr. And Mrs. Paul Newman giving performances so incandescent you'd think they'd had candle implants..."
Film Comment - Harlan Kennedy (11/01/1990)
"...Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward, are on screen virtually all of the time, and they're always worth watching....They have the kind of lived-in rapport that can't be faked..."
Los Angeles Times - Peter Rainer (02/01/1991)
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