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Sophie's Choice

Generally favorable reviews
Based on 8 critic reviews
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Movie Info
Genre(s): Art/Independent | Drama | Romance
Written by:
Alan J. Pakula
William Styron (novel)
Directed by: Alan J. Pakula
Release Date:
Theatrical: December 8, 1982
DVD: April 21, 1998
Running Time: 150 minutes, Color
Origin: USA
Summary
RATING: R
Starring Meryl Streep, Kevin Kline, and Peter MacNicol
Sophie (Streep) an Auschwitz survivor lives contently with Nathan (Kline). As Nathan becomes more unstable, she begins revealing her past to witer Stingo (MacNicol).
What The Critics Said
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Chicago Sun-Times Roger Ebert
Sophie's Choice is a fine, absorbing, wonderfully acted, heartbreaking movie.
Read Full Review >The New York Times Janet Maslin
Thanks in large part to Miss Streep's bravura performance, it's a film that casts a powerful, uninterrupted spell.
Read Full Review >TV Guide Staff (Not Credited)
Competently directed by Pakula and featuring gorgeous cinematography by Almendros, Sophie's Choice is an overlong, fairly schlocky film that takes itself very seriously.
Read Full Review >Christian Science Monitor David Sterritt
The overall result is a serious though harrowing journey into the dark corners of this century, marked by a compassionate approach and even a fillip of optimism at the end.
Read Full Review >The Globe and Mail (Toronto) Jay Scott
The film is a respectable, claustrophobic and slick piece of work, and cinematographer Nestor Almendros' color strategies - Rembrandt-like light at night, lemony tones during the day, desaturated sepia at Auschwitz - are arty to a fault. [14 Dec 1982]
Boston Globe Michael Blowen
Alan Pakula's literal adaptation of William Styron's Sophie's Choice is an admirable, if reverential, movie that crams this triangle into a 2 1/2 -hour character study enriched by Meryl Streep and Kevin Kline, and nearly destroyed by Peter MacNicol. [21 Jan 1983]
Variety Staff (Not Credited)
Sophie's Choice is a handsome, doggedly faithful and astoundingly tedious adaptation of William Styron's best-seller.
Read Full Review >Chicago Reader Dave Kehr
The picture is completely devoid of cinematic interest, adopting instead a tiresome theatrical aesthetic in which showy monologues are filmed in interminable, usually ill-chosen long takes.
Read Full Review >What Our Users Said
The average user rating for this movie is 10.0 (out of 10) based on 1 User Votes
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