Meryl Streep's Golden Career
Warner Bros / Everett
The Bridges of Madison County, 1995
Directed by Clint Eastwood, who also stars opposite her, Streep plays Francesca, a bored Italian immigrant housewife in Iowa who has a brief but passionate romance with a National Geographic photographer.
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