Sophie's Choice (1983)

"Between the innocent, the romantic, the sensual, and the unthinkable. There are still some things we have yet to imagine."Movie
Audience Score
73
Sophie's Choice
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R 2 hr 31 minMar 4th, 1983Drama, Romance, War
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Plot
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.

Movie Details

Theatrical Release:March 4th, 1983 - Buy Tickets
On DVD & Blu-ray:April 21st, 1998 - Buy DVD
Movie Budget:$12,000,000
Movie Box Office Gross:$30,036,166 (Worldwide)
Original Language:English
Executive Producers:Martin Starger
Production Companies:ITC Entertainment, Keith Barish Productions

Sophie's Choice Quotes

The Weight of Unimaginable Decisions

Quotes about Sophie's Choice: [[Roger Ebert] * ], in his review in The Chicago Sun-Times (1 January 1982)]

Sophie's Journey Through Painful Memories

Quotes about Sophie's Choice: [[love; [death; [honor; [friend; [woman; [hate; [past; [choices; [madness; [love] We almost don't notice, at first, as Stingo's odyssey into adulthood is replaced, in the film, by Sophie's journey back into the painful memories of her past. The movie becomes an act of discovery, as the naive young American, his mind filled with notions of ], ], and ], becomes the ] of a ] who has seen so much ], death, and dishonor that the only way she can continue is by blotting out the ], and drinking and loving her way into temporary oblivion. … Sophie's Choice is a fine, absorbing, wonderfully acted, heartbreaking movie. It is about three people who are faced with a series of ], some frivolous, some tragic. As they flounder in the bewilderment of being human in an age of ], they become our friends, and we ] them.