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Joanne Woodward’s Mrs. Bridge is one of the best performances ever given on film of a middle-aged woman.

~ Jeanine Basinger

Excellent films do exist on the subject, however, and one is a pure marriage movie in which Newman and Woodward make it work. Mr. and Mrs. Bridge exists to tell moviegoers that the marriage of their parents—especially if they were those tragic dogsbodies, Midwesterners—were fogbound. The film depicts a steady relationship that has no real communication between its couple

~ Jeanine Basinger

When it came to portraying couples who never directly connected, the Newmans were the Olympic gold champions

~ Jeanine Basinger

... this film taps perfectly into the viewers’ sense of the world. It was a big, big hit, and one of Hollywood’s best-remembered marriage movies, although by grounding itself in trendy political issues, it avoids ordinary day-to-day marital problems. Its bottom line is, however, marry your own kind.

~ Jeanine Basinger