Sophie's Choice
by Alan J. Pakula
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Actor: Kevin Kline, Meryl Streep, Peter MacNicol, Rita Karin, Stephen D. NewmanDirector: Alan J. Pakula
Brand: LION'S GATE ENTERTAINMENT
Cinematographer: N?stor Almendros
Producer: Alan J. Pakula
Writer: Alan J. Pakula
Producer: Keith Barish
Producer: Martin Starger
Producer: William C. Gerrity
Writer: William Styron
DVD: 2 Layers, Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround; Spanish (Subtitled)
Format: Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Letterboxed, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: Letterbox, 1.85:1
Running Time: 150 minutes
DVD Release Date: 1998-04-21
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: Lions Gate
Movie Reviews of Sophie's Choice
Movie Review: Puts the "I" in "Intense"
Summary: 5 Stars
Quick. Name me just one bad Meryl Streep performance (or even one mediocre one). I'll wait. (And Mamma Mia doesn't count.)
You're right. There isn't one.
And perhaps Streep's very best role is in the haunting, troubling SOPHIE'S CHOICE. I've seen this film on several occasions, and it's blown my socks off every time. Set in post-World War II Brooklyn, this is a story containing nuance, tenderness, guilt, remorse, discovery. . .raw emotion. And the focal point is Meryl Streep's role as Sophie, a Polish immigrant trying to overcome a most horrific past.
Told from the point of view of young Southern writer Stingo (a very fragile-looking Peter MacNicol), we witness the developing relationships of the three main characters: Stingo, Sophie, and her lover, Nathan (Kevin Kline, who brings this bipolar biologist to vivid life). Stingo, in effect, becomes a third wheel to the couple, and realizes there is more, much more, to Sophie and Nathan than meets the eye. And as we move deeper into the story, we the viewers become privy to more and more of the troubling details of Sophie's European past, until the details become not troubling, but horrific, when Sophie must make a most heart-wrenching choice concerning her two children.
While Kline and MacNicol are exceptional, Streep is absolutely flawless as the beautiful, yet mortally wounded, Sophie. Streep is indeed the motor that drives the intensity of this story--a story that will break your heart as it ends. Streep is not a good actress, she's a great actress; to say SOPHIE'S CHOICE is her very best role gets no argument from me.
--D. Mikels, Author, The Reckoning
Summary of Sophie's Choice
Sophie is the survivor of Nazi concentration camps who has found a reason to live in Nathan a sparkling if unsteady American Jew obsessed with the Holocaust. They befriend Stengo the movies narrator a young American writer new to New York City. But the happiness of Sophie and Nathan is endangered by her ghosts and his obsessions. Meryl Streep won an Oscar for her performance as Sophie. System Requirements:Directed by Alan J. Pakula Writing credits Alan J. Pakula Starring Meryl Streep Kevin Kline Runtime: 151 min.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre:?DRAMA Rating:?R UPC:?012236048701 Manufacturer No:?60487The sunny streets of Brooklyn, just after World War II. A young would-be writer named Stingo (Peter MacNicol) shares a boarding house with beautiful Polish immigrant Sophie (Meryl Streep) and her tempestuous lover, Nathan (Kevin Kline); their friendship changes his life. This adaptation of the bestselling novel by William Styron is faithful to the point of being reverential, which is not always the right way to make a film come to life. But director Alan J. Pakula (All the President's Men) provides a steady, intelligent path into the harrowing story of Sophie, whose flashback memories of the horrors of a Nazi concentration camp form the backbone of the movie. Streep's exceptional performance--flawless Polish accent and all--won her an Oscar, and effectively raised the standard for American actresses of her generation. No less impressive is Kevin Kline, in his movie debut, capturing the mercurial moods of the dangerously attractive Nathan. The two worlds of Sophie's Choice, nostalgic Brooklyn and monstrous Europe, are beautifully captured by the gifted cinematographer N?stor Almendros, whose work was Oscar-nominated but didn't win. It should have. --Robert Horton
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