Sophie's choice / ITC Entertainment ; screenplay by Alan J. Pakula ; produced by Alan J. Pakula and Keith Barish ; directed by Alan J. Pakula.
Material type:
FilmPublisher number: SF 14488 | Shout! Factory | (set)BD 14489 | Shout! Factory | (Blu-ray)DVD 14490 | Shout! Factory | (DVD)Publisher: [Place of publication not identified] : [Publisher not identified], [2014]Distributor: Los Angeles, CA : [United States] : Shout Factory ; ITV Studios Global Entertainment, [2014]Edition: Blu-ray + DVD collector's editionDescription: 1 videodisc (approximately 157 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 inContent type: - two-dimensional moving image
- video
- videodisc
- Sophie's choice (Motion picture)
- Director of photography, Nestor Almendros ; music, Marvin Hamlisch.
- Academy Award, 1982: Best actress (Meryl Streep)
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Main Library | DVD | DRAMA SOPHIE'S | Available | 33111010827653 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
The year is 1947. Aspiring southern author Stingo (Peter MacNichol) heads to New York to seek his fortune. Moving into a dingy Brooklyn boarding house, Stingo strikes up a friendship with research chemist Nathan Landau (Kevin Kline) and Nathan's girlfriend, Polish refugee Sophie Zawistowska (Oscar-winner Meryl Streep). There is something unsettling about the relationship; Nathan is subject to violent mood swings, while Sophie seems to be harboring a horrible secret. Stingo soons learns that both Nathan and Sophie are strangers to truth; the audience is likewise led down several garden paths by a series of sepia-toned flashbacks, depicting Sophie's ordeal in a wartime concentration camp. The scene in which we discover the facts behind Sophie's "choice" is a gut-wrenching one; it might have been even more powerful had not the film taken so long to get there. It is betraying nothing to reveal that the character of Stingo is the alter ego of William Styron, upon whose best-selling novel the film was based. The film is rated R, due in great part to a disposable scene wherein Stingo tries to put the make on a "liberated" female intellectual. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
Blu-ray, region A, NTSC, 1080p High-Definition, anamorphic widescreen (2.35:1); DTS HD Master Audio; requires Blu-ray player.
Title from container.
Meryl Streep, Kevin Kline, Peter MacNicol, Gunther Maria Halmer, Josef Sommer (narrator).
Director of photography, Nestor Almendros ; music, Marvin Hamlisch.
Originally released as a motion picture in 1983.
MPAA rating: R.
A haunting modern tragedy about Sophie Zawistowska, a beautiful Polish Auschwitz survivor settled in Brooklyn after WWII. She has intense relationships with a schizophrenic genius and an aspiring Southern writer.
Special features: New roundtable conversation with Meryl Streep, Kevin Kline and more!; Audio commentary with director Alan J Pakula; theatrical trailer.
Based on the novel by William Styron.
Academy Award, 1982: Best actress (Meryl Streep)