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  1. I love them!" “Sopie’s Choice” is a fine, absorbing, wonderfully acted, heartbreaking movie. It is about three people who are faced with a series of choices, some frivolous, some tragic. As they flounder in the bewilderment of being human in an age of madness, they become our friends, and we love them. Advertisement.

  2. Mar 4, 1983 · Sophie's Choice: Directed by Alan J. Pakula. With Meryl Streep, Kevin Kline, Peter MacNicol, Rita Karin. Sophie is the survivor of Nazi concentration camps, who has found a reason to live with Nathan, a sparkling if unsteady American Jew obsessed with the Holocaust.

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    • Drama, Romance
    • Alan J. Pakula
    • 1983-03-04
  3. Sophie's Choice is a 1982 psychological drama directed and written by Alan J. Pakula, adapted from William Styron's 1979 novel of the same name.The film stars Meryl Streep as Zofia "Sophie" Zawistowska, a Polish immigrant to America with a dark secret from her past who shares a boarding house in Brooklyn with her tempestuous lover Nathan (Kevin Kline in his feature film debut), and young ...

  4. Synopsis. In 1947, the movie's narrator, Stingo (Peter MacNicol), a young writer from the American South, travels to post-WW II Brooklyn. He is befriended by Sophie Zawistowski (Meryl Streep), a beautiful Polish immigrant, and her lover, Nathan Landau (Kevin Kline). It is clear to Stingo from the serial number tattooed into Sophie's forearm ...

  5. Dec 15, 2023 · The title of the novel, “Sophie’s Choice,” refers to a harrowing decision Sophie is forced to make upon her arrival at Auschwitz. A German physician, in a cruel exercise of power, demands that Sophie choose which of her two children, a boy and a girl, will be sent to the gas chambers. This choice and its aftermath form the emotional and ...

  6. Jun 10, 2008 · Alan J. Pakula's Sophie's Choice (1982), from William Styron's novel about the after-effects of Holocaust evil, gives us film's most memorable incarnation of survivor's guilt. If Meryl Streep had inscribed no performance other than this film's tortured Polish woman who can't forgive herself for continuing to live while witnessing so much ...

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  8. Pauline Kael New Yorker An infuriatingly bad movie. Sep 19, 2023 Full Review Bob Thomas Associated Press Sophie's Choice is a rare film, literate, deeply moving and gifted with an absolutely awe ...

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