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Sophie's Choice

The book Sophie's Choice was made into the movie Sophie's Choice.

Which one did you like better, the book or the movie?  There are 4 votes for the book, and 4 votes for the movie.

Book details for Sophie's Choice

Sophie's Choice was written by William Styron. The book was published in 1979 by Easton Press. More information on the book is available on Amazon.com.

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AUTOGRAPHED Brand new leatherbound book accented in 22kt gold.
AUTOGRAPHED Brand new leatherbound book accented in 22kt gold.

Movie details for Sophie's Choice

The movie was released in 1982 and directed by Alan J. Pakula, who also directed Presumed Innocent (1990) and Pelican Brief (1993). Sophie's Choice was produced by Lions Gate. More information on the movie is available on Amazon.com and also IMDb.

Actors on this movie include Meryl Streep, Kevin Kline, Peter MacNicol, Rita Karin, Stephen D. Newman, Greta Turken, Josh Mostel, Marcell Rosenblatt, Moishe Rosenfeld, Robin Bartlett, Eugene Lipinski, John Rothman, Joseph Leon, David Wohl, Nina Polan, Alexander Sirotin, Armand Dahan, Joseph Tobin, Cortez Nance and Günther Maria Halmer.

 

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The sunny streets of Brooklyn, just after World War II. A young would-be writer named Stingo (Peter MacNicol) shares a boarding house with beautiful Polish immigrant Sophie (Meryl Streep) and her tempestuous lover, Nathan (Kevin Kline); their friendship c... Read More
The sunny streets of Brooklyn, just after World War II. A young would-be writer named Stingo (Peter MacNicol) shares a boarding house with beautiful Polish immigrant Sophie (Meryl Streep) and her tempestuous lover, Nathan (Kevin Kline); their friendship changes his life. This adaptation of the bestselling novel by William Styron is faithful to the point of being reverential, which is not always the right way to make a film come to life. But director Alan J. Pakula (All the President's Men) provides a steady, intelligent path into the harrowing story of Sophie, whose flashback memories of the horrors of a Nazi concentration camp form the backbone of the movie. Streep's exceptional performance--flawless Polish accent and all--won her an Oscar, and effectively raised the standard for American actresses of her generation. No less impressive is Kevin Kline, in his movie debut, capturing the mercurial moods of the dangerously attractive Nathan. The two worlds of Sophie's Choice, nostalgic Brooklyn and monstrous Europe, are beautifully captured by the gifted cinematographer Néstor Almendros, whose work was Oscar-nominated but didn't win. It should have. --Robert Horton