Sophie's Choice (1982)
Genre: Drama / Romance
Duration: 150 minuten
Alternative title: Sophie's Keuze
Country:
United States / United Kingdom
Directed by: Alan J. Pakula
Stars: Meryl Streep, Kevin Kline and Peter MacNicol
IMDb score:
7,5 (54.947)
Releasedate: 8 December 1982
Sophie's Choice plot
"Between the innocent, the romantic, the sensual, and the unthinkable. There are still some things we have yet to imagine."
Sophie is a survivor of the Nazi concentration camps. She has regained her meaning in life thanks to Nathan, a bubbly but unstable American Jew obsessed with the Holocaust. They befriend Stingo, a young American writer new to New York. But Sophie and Nathan's happiness is threatened by their past.
Actors and actresses
Zofia "Sophie" Zawistowski
Nathan Landau
Stingo
Yetta
Morris Fink
Lillian Grossman
Polish Professor
Librarian
Dr. Blackstock
English Teacher
Reviews & comments
K. V.
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- 4255 messages
- 3688 votes
The first hour was a bit disappointing. The story wasn't very fast, but luckily this changed once she started talking about the concentration camp with the necessary flashbacks.
Not a bad word about the acting at all, especially Meryl Streep played well.
Too bad about the first hour, but I'm still glad I saw this one, although it's not really a film that I need to see again.
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Roger Thornhill
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- 5832 messages
- 2337 votes
The drama is fair, the dilemma horrific of course, and Meryl Streep's portrayal superb, but what happened to me when I first saw this film (somewhere in the 80s) happened to me again upon review: actually I find Kevin Kline's role much more interesting . If I don't find his intimidating mania as impressive as it used to be, it's only because I've seen him in so many other intense roles since then, from the hilarious Otto in A fish called Wanda through the disarming [i ]Dave[/i] to the merry senior in Last Vegas, and while he wasn't similarly ominous in any of those roles, his work has always been of a reliable quality. Sophie's choice was the first movie I saw it in, and while this is mostly Meryl Streep's movie for most people, I don't understand why Kline doesn't at least get an Oscar nomination for this left over. Peter MacNicol has unfortunately gone somewhat under the radar since then.
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Lovelyboy
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- 3571 messages
- 2645 votes
Disappointing whole that is too much love drama for me than drama, and of which I think the core of the story is a bit lost due to peripheral matters.
The core of the story is interesting enough. Not only do we have to deal with 'the choice', but also the survival and trauma afterwards. How do you deal with that...? A mystery and legacy for many in the years after the war. We see the damaged Sophie in a strange relationship with the unstable Nathan, something that is interesting at first. After the addition of Stingo, the event degenerates into a platonic love triangle. Slowly, between the ups and downs, that which came before emerges. Something too bad to talk about. Streep excels in her role as a traumatized woman who tells and, as it turns out, was faced with an impossible choice. Also nice to mention is the excellent image of the camp and the beautiful classical music.
Still, as far as I'm concerned, the film loses itself too much in Nathan's maddening excesses and Stingo's fluttering who hopes to have a chance at Sophie. Because of this slow build-up, the film feels very slow and long over, and at a certain point the relationship between the three doesn't interest me at all. Interesting again and probably not a coincidence, the fact that Sophie can choose between two and the weather can't. At least not a choice for something better.
Sophie's Choise wasn't exactly what I expected it to be and therefore rarely really captivates me. The final verdict is nice for once.
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