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Sophie's Choice

Name: Sophie's Choice
Director: Alan Pakula
Genre: Drama
Released: 1982-01-01
Duration: 120 min
Cast: Meryl Streep, Kevin Kline, Peter MacNicol, Josef Sommer, Rita Karin

2h 45m|R|Drama|1982

Stingo (Peter MacNicol), a young writer, moves to Brooklyn in 1947 to begin work on his first novel. As he becomes friendly with Sophie (Meryl Streep) and her lover Nathan (Kevin Kline), he learns that Sophie 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.

Director:

Alan Pakula

Cast:

Meryl Streep, Kevin Kline, Peter MacNicol, Josef Sommer, Rita Karin, Stephen Newman, Greta Turken, Josh Mostel, Marcell Rosenblatt, Moishe Rosenfeld, Robin Bartlett