The Bridges of Madison County (film) has a 66 out of 100 rating, based on 22 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews". According to Janet Maslin, "Clint Eastwood, director and alchemist, has transformed "The Bridges of Madison County" into something bearable—no, something even better. Limited by the vapidity of this material while he trims its excesses with the requisite machete, Mr. Eastwood locates a moving, elegiac love story at the heart of Mr. Waller's self-congratulatory overkill. The movie has leanness and surprising decency, and Meryl Streep has her best role in years. Looking sturdy and voluptuous in her plain housedress (the year is 1965), Ms. Streep rises
Madison County, Iowa 10.40% of those age 65 or over. There are only six extant covered bridges in Madison County of the original nineteen: The remaining covered bridges were designed by Harvey P. Jones and George K. Foster, with the following exceptions - Eli Cox built the Cutler-Donahoe Bridge, and J. P. Clark built the Imes Bridge. Madison county is home to the only highway tunnel in Iowa, Harmon Tunnel, through the neck of an incised meander of the Middle River in Pammel Park. The population ranking of the following table is based on the 2010 census of Madison County. † "county seat"