Movie #: 233
Movie Title: Sophie’s Choice
Year Released: 1982
Director: Alan J. Pakula
Notable Cast: Meryl Streep, Kevin Klein, Peter MacNicol
Short Description: Sophie is the survivor of Nazi concentration camps, who has found a reason to live in 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. (IMDB.com)
Rank on the Top 100 Lists
AFI.com: #91
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Date Watched: 3/3/2013
What I Liked: I really never understood why critics love Meryl Streep until I saw this movie. To say she was captivating in an understatement as she gave quite the powerful performance in her flashback of the time she spent at the Nazi concentration camps. Kevin Klein was also very convincing as a borderline psychopath whose mood could change at any moment from living and loving life to anger fueled by the fires of hell.
What I Disliked: Stingo accepts a very rushed and overbearing offering at close friendship by Sophie and Nathan without really knowing them and I found that a tad ill advised. The relationship between the main characters seemed flighty early in the movie and had me close to losing interest.
Grade: 4 out of 5 (Excellent)
Rationale: While I thought the movie started out a bit scattered, Meryl Streep’s performance had me clamoring for more and wishing I hadn’t judged it prematurely.
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