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Sophie's Choice
1982
The year is 1947. Aspiring southern author Stingo (Peter MacNichol) heads to New York to seek his fortune. Moving into a dingy Brooklyn boarding house, Stingo strikes up a friendship with research chemist Nathan Landau (Kevin Kline) and Nathan's girlfriend, Polish refugee Sophie Zawistowska (Oscar-winner Meryl Streep). There is .. 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
The year is 1947. Aspiring southern author Stingo (Peter MacNichol) heads to New York to seek his fortune. Moving into a dingy Brooklyn boarding house, Stingo strikes up a friendship with research chemist Nathan Landau (Kevin Kline) and Nathan's girlfriend, Polish refugee Sophie Zawistowska (Oscar-winner Meryl Streep). There is something unsettling about the relationship; Nathan is subject to violent mood swings, while Sophie seems to be harboring a horrible secret. Stingo soons learns that both Nathan and Sophie are strangers to truth; the audience is likewise led down several garden paths by a series of sepia-toned flashbacks, depicting Sophie's ordeal in a wartime concentration camp. The scene in which we discover the facts behind Sophie's choice is a gut-wrenching one; it might have been even more powerful had not the film taken so long to get there. It is betraying nothing to reveal that the character of Stingo is the alter ego of William Styron, upon whose best-selling novel the film was based. The film is rated R, due in great part to a disposable scene wherein Stingo tries to put the make on a liberated female intellectual.~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
| Starring | Meryl Streep, Kevin Kline, Peter MacNicol, David Wohl |
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| Director | Alan J. Pakula |
| Studio | BMG DISTRIBUTION |
| Run time | DVD: 2 hrs 24 mins |
| Certificate |  |
| Genres | Drama |
| Language | DVD: English |
| Hearing-impaired | English |
| Released | Production year: 1982 To Rent: DVD: 19 Sep 1999 |
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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... read more »
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Builds a fantastic tension with subtle title that makes you wonder what choice? Stunning, haunting, tragic with Streep never better
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Great Drama set after WW2
Great Drama set after WW2. Be patient as it slowly takes off and the film starts to reveal more about the characters.
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Probably my favourite film of all time.
Unforgettable haunting classic, in one film embodies the blind hope and optimism of youth with the total insanity , and evil of the Nazis. I first watched this ... read more »
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Streep never tires of Academy Awards
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Meryl Streep never tires of Oscars buzz, despite receiving 16 nominations during her stellar big screen career. The legendary actress landed her first Academy Award nod for her role in The Deer Hunter in 1978, and picked up a golden statuette the year after for Kramer vs. Kramer. Streep won her second Oscar for 1982's Sophie's Choice and she has gone on to become the most nominated actress in history. She was last nominated in 2010 for her role in Julie & Julia, and she is hotly tipped to walk Read more
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Sophie's Choice
The year is 1947. Aspiring southern author Stingo (Peter MacNichol) heads to New York to seek his fortune. Moving into a dingy Brooklyn boarding house, Stingo strikes up a friendship with research chemist Nathan Landau (Kevin Kline) and Nathan's girlfriend, Polish refugee Sophie Zawistowska (Oscar-...
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