Clint Eastwood – Information

Cast: Clint Eastwood, Meryl Streep

Director: Clint Eastwood

Writers: Robert James Waller / Richard LaGravenese

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It is the summer of 1956; Francesca is home alone while her husband and children are away in Illinois. The path of Francesca’s destine have being made when Robert Kincaid an

photographer from Mational Geographic magazine show up on Johnson farm and asks Francesca for directions to Rosamunde Bridge, she does it and they spend the next few days together.

Francesca kept a diary wich was found by her kids among her possessions after her death. So the secret of the affair was exposed an the message in the diary to the kids is to do anything to make them happy in life.

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• In 1993, Sydney Pollack was the front-runner for the director’s chair for this film and it was expected that Robert Redford would star. At the time, other contenders for the female lead included Susan Sarandon, Jessica Lange, Barbara Hershey and Anjelica Huston.
• The Cedar Bridge, where Francesca met Robert, was destroyed in a fire on 3 September 2002.
• Francesca’s House was burned in an arson fire on 6 October 2003, almost a year after the Cedar Bridge was destroyed.
• The farmhouse used in the film had been abandoned for over thirty years and was completely restored by production designer Jeannine Claudia Oppewall and her art directors Charles Breen and William Arnold.
• Meryl Streep allegedly put on 15-20 pounds of weight for her role in this film as a middle-aged housewife.
• Bruce Beresford was chosen as the director before Clint Eastwood but wanted to make Francesca Johnson English. When this was not accepted by the studio he left.
• Robert James Waller finished his manuscript in eleven days, intending it to be simply a gift for various friends and family. One of his friends was so impressed with the manuscript, he asked if he could try to interest a literary agent in the work. Waller later received a life-changing call from a New York agent who asked, “…Robert, where have you been all my life?”
• In her autobiography Catherine Deneuve mentions how she traveled to London to audition for the lead role.
• Cher and Isabella Rossellini were two other actresses in contention for the female lead.

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