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I love this movie so much

Expected more

There is, somehow, an interesting story here, as well as some good acting. There are also some good scenes

This movie tries so hard to be funny, yet it falls flat every time. Just another example of recycled ideas repackaged with women in an attempt to appeal to a certain audience.

Mr. and Mrs. Bridge is a fine dramatization of two novels and features one of Paul Newman's finest performances. It introduced us to Kyra Sedgwick and of course, Joanne Woodward gives her usual fine performance (She's the only one who got an Oscar nomination.It's the story of a family in the Kansas City suburbs. When it starts out, the children are in HIgh School, but the film gives each of their stories time to develop. However, for me, the performance that captivates is that of Blythe Danner as India Bridge's best friend, a woman being driven crazy by living in the Kansas City suburbs of the late 1950s and early 1950s. Unhappy, she (SPOILER) becomes a pyromaniac.It's a marvelous movie, worth seeing again if you haven't seen it yet, and if you haven't read them, by all means, do!

Sleep inducing story of an old married couple and their children. Walter Bridge (Paul Newman) is a mean obnoxious old man who treats everybody like dirt--especially his wife. India Bridge (Joanne Woodward) plays his long-suffering wife who fights to keep the family together. Their children--Carolyn (Margaret Walsh) and Douglas (Robert Sean Leonard)--want to live their own lives.Long, boring and wildly overpraised movie. This is one of those small art films that critics fell all over themselves raving about (mostly because they couldn't figure out what it was about so it MUST be intelligent). What this actually is is a character study of a heavily dysfunctional and VERY dull family. Nothing wrong with character studies but the characters have to be interesting...and these aren't! The script is by the numbers and has been done before in many other better films. Also this movie drags out for OVER 2 hours! You keep waiting for something to happen...and it doesn't! I was fighting to stay awake through the whole thing. The acting is all good (especially by Newman and Woodward) but it can't save such a dull film. Mostly forgotten...and for good reason! I give it a 1.

A great film about the changing times during the 30s and 40s. Both Mr. and Mrs. Bridge quietly confront the subtle changes that happen around them. It's take place during those decades, but one must remember that their characters were products of the Victorian Age and carry with them those noble virtues that subtly eroded during the 30s and 40s that culminated with the horrors of the 60s and 70s. Mr. Bridge plays a stoic (albeit somewhat distant) father who insures that his family is well provided for and Mrs. Bridge exemplifies a caring mother who makes sure that their home is well maintained. A well done example in history and changing times. If only times didn't have to change.

Sadder than this very moving film are the reactions of those who found this movie boring or too "slow." What a comment on the need for car chases and explosions that seem so pervasive in American flicks!! One of the reason I prefer foreign films."Mr and Mrs Bridge" is an amazingly accurate depiction of upper middle class lives, caught in the trap of repression and respectability. To watch the fate of Mrs Bridge (exquisitely portrayed by Joanne Woodward) as a woman trapped in a marriage to an inexpressive, career-focused man is to understand how women, even today, can lead limited, unfulfilled lives, bound up with a decisive husband and children who grow into self-absorbed adults, leaving their mother with a longing they won't or can't assuage.Seeing the character of Mr. Bridge (another outstanding performance by Paul Newman), himself caught in the routine of his life, his sexual yearnings repressed, convinced of his correctness and respectability is a picture of the rigidity of ideas, values and prejudices rampant in our society, even in our own time.An amazing and insight movie!!