Sophie's Choice

Released Date
December 8, 1982
Distributor
Universal Pictures
Genre
Drama
Rating
R
Worldwide Gross
Domestic Gross + International Gross = Worldwide Gross
$30,036,000 + $0 = $30,036,000
75
Meryl Streep

as Zofia

77
Kevin Kline

as Nathan Landau

70
Peter MacNicol

as Stingo

77
Josh Mostel

as Morris Fink

75
John Rothman

as Librarian

About Sophie's Choice

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.

About

A young writer, Stingo, moves to Brooklyn in 1947 and gets to know his new neighbors but soon he unravels that his neighbor Sophie is a Holocaust survivor and her lover has an ever-fragile mental state. 

Trivia

The film is based on the novel of the same name by William StyronMeryl Streep learned to speak German and Polish to have a proper Polish refugee accent which later won her the Academy Award for Best Actress.