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12/08/2000

Mr. & Mrs. Bridge (1990)

This is, perhaps, one of the most lonely films I've ever seen. India Bridge (Joanne Woodward) is just going through the motions as a well-to-do housewife who has lived for her husband and children. Her children obviously despise her weakness and her husband views her more as the furniture of his life than as a person. Woodward, in my opinion, should have taken home the Oscar for her performance.

As a matter of fact, I couldn't find a single fault with any of the actors - but my whole feeling was "so what." I was bored and, by the second half, I was beginning to feel that not only had India Bridge wasted her entire life, but I was compounding that tragedy by squandering precious time watching her!

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