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73% Critic Match
Sophie's Choice
“Between the innocent, the romantic, the sensual, and the unthinkable. There are still some things we have yet to imagine.”
7.3 / 10• 1982• 2h 31m•R• English
DramaRomanceWar
Storyline
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.
Cast & Crew
Meryl Streep
Zofia "Sophie" Zawistowski
Lead
Kevin Kline
Nathan Landau
Peter MacNicol
Stingo
Rita Karin
Yetta
SD
Stephen D. Newman
Larry
GT
Greta Turken
Leslie Lapidus
Josh Mostel
Morris Fink
MR
Marcell Rosenblatt
Astrid Weinstein
What People Are Saying
4.0
“A staggering achievement of craft and ambition. Alan J. Pakula's vision lands with breathtaking precision.”
4.0
“Every frame feels alive. Sophie's Choice is the rare release that takes its audience seriously.”
