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
$30,036,000 + $0 = $30,036,000
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 Styron. Meryl Streep learned to speak German and Polish to have a proper Polish refugee accent which later won her the Academy Award for Best Actress.