
Sophie is the survivor of Nazi concentration camps, who has found a reason to live with Nathan, a sparkling if unsteady American Jew obsessed with the Holocaust. They befriend Stingo, the movie's narrator, a young American writer new to New York City. But the happiness of Sophie and Nathan is endangered by her ghosts and his obsessions.... (Full plot summary below)
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Sophie is the survivor of Nazi concentration camps, who has found a reason to live with Nathan, a sparkling if unsteady American Jew obsessed with the Holocaust. They befriend Stingo, the movie's narrator, a young American writer new to New York City. But the happiness of Sophie and Nathan is endangered by her ghosts and his obsessions.
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| Chicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertSophie's Choice is a fine, absorbing, wonderfully acted, heartbreaking movie. |
| Video-Reviewmaster.comSteve CrumStunning to the max, and Streep is memorable as Sophie. |
| The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Jay ScottCompetently directed by Pakula and featuring gorgeous cinematography by Almendros, Sophie's Choice is an overlong, fairly schlocky film that takes itself very seriously. |
| Boston GlobeMichael BlowenThe overall result is a serious though harrowing journey into the dark corners of this century, marked by a compassionate approach and even a fillip of optimism at the end. |
| QuickflixGlenn DunksAnd while Meryl Streep's performance is largely worthy of its laurels ... the film around it is much harder to forgive. Beyond Streep, Sophie's Choice is little more than a tediously assembled WWII drama of interminable length. |
| Common Sense MediaRenee SchonfeldTragic post-WWII tale has violence, death, and cursing. |
| Associated PressBob ThomasSophie's Choice is a rare film, literate, deeply moving and gifted with an absolutely awe-inspiring performance by Meryl Streep. |
| The New RepublicStanley KauffmannIn other ways the film is just as unsatisfactory as the book, because it's inseparably strapped to basic flaws. The story has no center, no protagonist. To whom does the action of the novel happen? |
| The DissolveKeith PhippsAlan 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. |
| rec.arts.movies.reviewsDragan AntulovMeryl Streep's role in this film is so overwhelming that she outshines everything else. |