Sophie's Choice

Name: Sophie's Choice
Genre: Drama, Romance
Released: December 8, 1982
Duration: 150 min
Rating: 68
Cast: Kevin Kline, Meryl Streep, Peter MacNicol

1982

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CBS/Fox | Release Date: December 8, 1982 | R

Starring: Kevin Kline, Meryl Streep, Peter MacNicol

Summary: Sophie (Streep) an Auschwitz survivor lives contently with Nathan (Kline). As Nathan becomes more unstable, she begins revealing her past to witer Stingo (MacNicol).

Director: Alan J. Pakula

Genre(s): Drama, Romance

Rating: R

Runtime: 150 min

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Roger Ebert

Sophie's Choice is a fine, absorbing, wonderfully acted, heartbreaking movie. Read full review

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

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

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]

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]

Keith Phipps

Alan J. Pakula’s 1982 adaptation of William Styron’s 1979 novel Sophie’s Choice is one of those films whose great qualities put its lesser elements in sharp relief. Read full review

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

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JackieSans

Jun 25, 2014

Meryl Streep is flawless in this film which, in my opinion, is her best. The stories of her past, not only the camps but meeting Nathan, are told with heartbreaking truth and beauty. Kevin Kline is a wonderfully unlikable persona. The only flaw, to me, is Stingo. His vulnerability comes thruMeryl Streep is flawless in this film which, in my opinion, is her best. The stories of her past, not only the camps but meeting Nathan, are told with heartbreaking truth and beauty. Kevin Kline is a wonderfully unlikable persona. The only flaw, to me, is Stingo. His vulnerability comes thru very well, but his character (or maybe his acting) just wasn't up to par with Streep and Kline. Sophie is one of the most memorable characters I've ever encountered in cinema.… Expand