Sophie's Choice with Meryl Streep: DVD Cover

    Sophie's Choice Director: Alan J. Pakula Cast: Meryl Streep, Kevin Kline, Peter MacNichol, Rita Karin

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    • DVD Release Date: 04/21/1998
    • Original Release: 1982
    • Rating: Rated R
    • Sales Rank: 6,932

    Viewer Rating: (9 ratings)

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    Features

    Widescreen version; Reverse spiral dual layer disc; Director's commentary track; Documentary; 2.0 Dolby Surround; Digitally mastered; Interactive menus; Scene access; Spanish subtitles; Theatrical trailer; Production notes; Cast & crew information

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    Scene Index

    Side #1 --
    0. Scene Index
    1. Main Credits [1:50]
    2. New York [3:17]
    3. Distraction [3:08]
    4. Typing [4:20]
    5. Friends [4:24]
    6. Velocity [5:22]
    7. Prophesy [3:58]
    8. Library [2:35]
    9. Paradise [4:33]
    10. Translation [3:39]
    11. "Dark Gods" [4:30]
    12. Nightcap [3:37]
    13. Auschwitz [5:53]
    14. Insight [6:26]
    15. Mad Scientist [6:14]
    16. Breakthrough [3:29]
    17. Fidelity [5:47]
    18. Investigation [2:44]
    19. Apology [4:48]
    20. Solution [4:03]
    21. Extremination [3:51]
    22. Courage [7:14]
    23. Sacrifice [4:02]
    24. Fate [4:25]
    25. Lebensborn [3:32]
    26. Radio [4:14]
    27. Despair [3:07]
    28. Madness [3:31]
    29. Proposal [4:25]
    30. Breakdown [3:34]
    31. Direction [:41]
    32. Train Ride [5:01]
    33. The Choice [6:32]
    34. Living [4:15]
    35. Self-destruction [4:31]
    36. End Credits [2:59]

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    Editorial Reviews

    The year is 1947. Aspiring southern author Stingo (Peter MacNichol) heads to New York to seek his fortune. Moving into a dingy Brooklyn boarding house, Stingo strikes up a friendship with research chemist Nathan Landau (Kevin Kline) and Nathan's girlfriend, Polish refugee Sophie Zawistowska (Oscar-winner Meryl Streep). There is something unsettling about the relationship; Nathan is subject to violent mood swings, while Sophie seems to be harboring a horrible secret. Stingo soons learns that both Nathan and Sophie are strangers to truth; the audience is likewise led down several garden paths by a series of sepia-toned flashbacks, depicting Sophie's ordeal in a wartime concentration camp. The scene in which we discover the facts behind Sophie's "choice" is a gut-wrenching one; it might have been even more powerful had not the film taken so long to get there. It is betraying nothing to reveal that the character of Stingo is the alter ego of William Styron, upon whose best-selling novel the film was based. The film is rated R, due in great part to a disposable scene wherein Stingo tries to put the make on a "liberated" female intellectual. Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

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    Very sad and confusingby Harrigan

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    October 15, 2009: This was a very confusing movie. It seemed to jump around alot and was boring at best. It had some humor but was basically a very sad movie.

    riveting & historicalby gregory969

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    October 10, 2009: The performances of Kevin Kline and Meryl Streep was phenonemal. Kline should have won a Best Actor or Best Supporting Actor award in this 1982 film. Streep was adorable and she shows her flexibility as an actress.

    Secondly, this film will be a great addition to our Holocaust Studies where I have been teaching this subject for over twenty years.


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