Sophie's Choice (1982)
- Starring:
- Meryl Streep, Kevin Kline, (more)
- Director(s):
- Alan J. Pakula
- Theatrical MPAA Rating:
- R
- Format(s):
- DVD
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Synopsis of 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, Rovi
- Theatrical Feature Running Time:
- 150 mins
Complete Cast of Sophie's Choice
- Meryl Streep - Sophie Zawistowska
- Peter MacNicol - Stingo
- Stephen D. Newman - Larry
- Josh Mostel - Morris Fink
- Katharina Thalbach - Wanda
- Ulli Fessl - Frau Hoess
- Jennifer Lawn - Sophie's Child
- Marcell Rosenblatt - Astrid Weinstein
- Robin Bartlett - Lillian Grossman
- Eugeniusz Priwieziencew - Prisoner at Shower
- Moishe Rosenfeld - Moishe Rosenblum
- Armand Dahan - Man #2 in English Class
- Vida Jerman - Female SS Guard
- Kevin Kline - Nathan Landau
- Rita Karin - Yetta Zimmerman
- Greta Turken - Leslie Lapidus
- Günther Maria Halmer - Rudolf Hoess
- Karlheinz Hackl - SS Doctor
- Melanie Pianka - Emmi Hoess
- Adrian Kalitka - Sophie's Child
- Joseph Leon - Dr. Blackstock
- Josef Sommer - Narrator
- David Wohl - English Teacher
- Joseph Tobin - Reporter
- John Rothman - Librarian
- Eugene Lipinski - Polish Professor
- Director(s):
- Alan J. Pakula
- Writer(s):
- Alan J. Pakula
- Producer(s):
- Alan J. Pakula, Martin Starger, Keith Barish
- Theatrical MPAA Rating:
- R(Adult Situations, Adult Language, Violence, Sexual Situations, Not For Children)
- 1982 - Hollywood Foreign Press Association - Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture - Drama
- 1982 - Los Angeles Film Critics Association - Best Actress
- 1982 - National Board of Review - Best Actress
- 1982 - National Society of Film Critics - Best Actress
- 1982 - New York Film Critics Circle - Best Actress
- 1982 - New York Film Critics Circle - Best Cinematography
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