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deseretnews.com - : ''Mr. & Mrs. Bridge'' is a tragicomedy of manners, if you will, with darkly satirical underpinnings. It is also deliberate, episodic . . . and nothing less than riveting in its own quiet way. more...
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www.rollingstone.com - : Director James Ivory and screenwriter Ruth Prawer Jhabvala have painstakingly adapted two outstanding novels by Evan S. Connell about the strained marriage of a ramrod-stiff Kansas City lawyer and his inhibited wife. The film tells the story of Walter and India Bridge, played by Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward, by means of a series of vignettes that move through the Thirties and Forties as their children grow up and go off to worlds more violent, erotic and dangerous than anything the Bridges have encountered in their more...
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www.washingtonpost.com - : ''Mr. and Mrs. Bridge'' lasts just over two hours but could just as easily have been 18. This combo-adaptation of Evan S. Connell's novels about a 1930s WASP family (''Mr. Bridge'' and ''Mrs. Bridge''), defines its leisurely, passionless world adequately but then strolls in place. It's the genteel equivalent of a shaggy dog story. A manicured dog story perhaps. more...
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