Stars: Meryl Streep, Kevin Kline, Peter MacNicol, David Wohl

Director: Alan J. Pakula

Summary: A dramatic film, set in 1947, which highlights the life of a young man living away from home, and his encounters with a young couple and their turbulent relationship. Based on the novel by William Styron.

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.

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Reviewed by: davybozal24-7
Posted on April 12, 2006 1:33 PM

Sophie's Choice is a tragic tale of a writer's love for a Holocaust
surviver , adapted from William Styron's best - selling novel . Sophie
( Meryl Streep ) is a Polish Catholic haunted by the ' choice ' she had to make in a Nazi concentration camp . Now in the United States , she has found a reason to live in Nathan ( Kevin Kline ) , a sparkling
if unsteady American Jew obsessed with the Holocaust . They befriend Stingo ( Peter MacNicol ) a young writer just arrived in New
York City who bears witness as the hapiness of Sophie and Nathan
becomes endangered by ghosts and obsessions .

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The 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 Néstor Almendros, whose work was Oscar-nominated but didn't win. It should have. --Robert Horton, Amazon.com

Aspect Ratio:	4:3 Full Frame
Main Language:	English
Region:	Region 2
Special Features:	Interactive Menus, Scene Access
Year:	1982
Release Date:	September 19, 2005
Runtime:	144 minutes
Certification:
Catalogue Number:	30370 90503 R D
Label:	Granada
Keywords:	General, Choice, Drama, William, Styron, Sophie's
Genre:	Drama