Mr. & Mrs. Bridge

The glass of beer on the tablecloth moves from being completely on the white part to resting on the border depending on the camera angle.

A ticking noise can be heard in the European hotel room, yet the second hand on the clock does not move.

In the DVD version, when the awning is ripped from the country club during the tornado, the wire pulling it is clearly visible.

When Mrs.

Bridge presents the special pineapple cake to Mr.

Bridge, her voice does not match her mouth movements.

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"Mr. and Mrs.

A well-off lawyer and his socialite wife have a few episodes in their lives during the 1930s and into the 1940s. The man is a rather overbearing patriarch and the wife is a doting housewife who doesn't quite know how to handle her adult kids.

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!!

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.

Out of the Merchant Ivory productions I have seen, Mr and Mrs Bridge is my least favourite probably. That said, it is not a bad film, far from it.

Having recently read the masterful separate books Mrs. Bridge and Mr.

Films produced under the Merchant/Ivory banner are, as a general rule, respectable, literate, and often more than a little bit dull. But here's an exception (to the last rule, at least): an intimate, snapshot diary of an ordinary, middle-class, mid-American couple, played by the off-screen couple of Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward.

Nearly a quarter-century after its release, this film still packs an emotional wallop. One of the very few Hollywood films to level any kind of criticism at the young generation, specifically big- city people, the story in many ways seems even more timely today (in 2005) than when it was made.