Sophie's Choice Poster

Sophie's Choice

Between the innocent, the romantic, the sensual, and the unthinkable. There are still some things we have yet to imagine.

Starring: Meryl Streep, Kevin Kline, Peter MacNicol, Rita Karin, Josh Mostel

Writer: Alan J. Pakula, William Styron

Release Date:
December 8, 1982
Ratings:
7.3 / 10
Director:
Alan J. Pakula
Companies:
ITC Entertainment

Overview

Stingo, a young writer, moves to Brooklyn in 1947 to begin work on his first novel. As he becomes friendly with Sophie and her lover Nathan, he learns that she 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.