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Sophie's Choice
1982
Faithfully adapted from Willian Styron's best-selling novel, Alan J. Pakula's handsome production charts the course of an eccentric and intense love triangle in 1947 Brooklyn, New York. Meryl Streep won an Academy Award for her carefully nuanced performance and perfect accent as Sophie, a Polish survivor of WWII concentration .. Read more
| Starring | Meryl Streep, Kevin Kline, Peter MacNicol, David Wohl |
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| Director | Alan J. Pakula |
| Genres | Drama |
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Sophie's Choice
Faithfully adapted from Willian Styron's best-selling novel, Alan J. Pakula's handsome production charts the course of an eccentric and intense love triangle in 1947 Brooklyn, New York. Meryl Streep won an Academy Award for her carefully nuanced performance and perfect accent as Sophie, a Polish survivor of WWII concentration camps who harbors a devastating secret. The film is told through the eyes of aspiring Southern author Stingo (Emmy-nominated Peter MacNichol of TV's ALLY MCBEAL) who moves to New York and strikes a friendship with Sophie and her boyfriend Nathan--played by Kevin Kline in his debut screen role.
| Starring | Meryl Streep, Kevin Kline, Peter MacNicol, David Wohl |
|---|---|
| Director | Alan J. Pakula |
| Studio | PRISM LEISURE |
| Run time | DVD: 2 hrs 24 mins |
| Certificate | |
| Genres | Drama |
| Language | DVD: English |
| Hearing-impaired | English |
| Released | DVD: 19 Sep 1999 Production year: 1982 |
| Format | DVD |
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Meryl Streep confirmed her status as the Queen of Accents with her Oscar-winning performance in this moving adaptation of William Styron's bestselling novel. Yet, for all the significance of the revelations about Sophie's past, it is the interaction between the three central characters that gives the story its strength, and it is quite bewildering that, in spite of the quality of Kevin Kline's temperamental zest and Peter MacNicol's adoring timidity, neither merited even an Oscar nomination. Alan J Pakula's direction is much less constricted than his overly reverential script, thanks to the beautiful and evocative photography provided by Nestor Almendros.
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"...Streep accomplishes the near-impossible, presenting Sophie in believably human terms without losing the scale of [Styron's] invention....By turns exhilarating and heartbreaking..."
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18 out of 18 people found this review helpful
[Highly rated reviewer]
Great performance from Streep
Some good cinematography coupled with an Oscar winning performance by Meryl Streep lifted this film from the mixed bag that it was. About a woman who survived a Nazi concentration camp, I found it to be more effective at getting across the horror of the holocaust than Schindler's List. It's not as good as the latter but Sophie's Choice definitely made a deeper mark on me and if you enjoy watching good acting performances, you can't go wrong with Streep's in this
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2 out of 2 people found this review helpful
Choices, choices!
Three wonderfully, sympathetically drawn characters captured exqiisitely by Meryl Streep, Kevin Klein and Peter MacNicol.
An open minded young man trying to understand and come to terms with the psycological damage caused to a former generation who survived one of the most hideous periods of human history.
Meryl Streep's best performance. -
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Sophie's Choice
Faithfully adapted from Willian Styron's best-selling novel, Alan J. Pakula's handsome production charts the course of an eccentric and intense love triangle in 1947 Brooklyn, New York. Meryl Streep won an Academy Award for her carefully nuanced performance and perfect accent as Sophie, a Polish ...
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