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Sophie's Choice

Cast

Meryl Streep, Kevin Kline, Peter MacNicol, Rita Karin View All


Crew

Alan J. Pakula (Screenplay), Alan J. Pakula (Director) View All

Release: Dec. 8th, 1982
Runtime: 2 hours, 31 minutes
Stingo, a young writer, moves to Brooklyn in 1947 to begin work on his first novel. As he becomes friendly with Sophie and her lover Nathan, he learns that she is a Holocaust survivor. Flashbacks reveal her harrowing story, from pre-war prosperity to Auschwitz. In the present, Sophie and Nathan's relationship increasingly unravels as Stingo grows closer to Sophie and Nathan's fragile mental state becomes ever more apparent.
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Citizen Rules
Sophie's Choice (1982) Director: Alan J Pakula Writers: William Styron(novel), Alan J Pakula(screenplay) Cast: Meryl Streep, Kevin Kline, Peter MacNicol Genre: Drama, Romanc.
Gideon58
To reveal anymore here would spoil this harrowing and unique film that left me spent and emotionally exhausted...the film requires complete attention as the relationship between the three principals and the flashbacks of Sophie's past are revealed in slow and detailed layers, almost a little too slo....


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