Sophie’s Choice is a movie directed by Alan J. Pakula in 1982 and based on the book of the same name by William Styron, first published in 1979. The movie features Meryl Streep, Kevin Kline, Peter MacNicol, Rita Karin, Stephen D. Newman, Greta Turken, and others.
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Storyline
In 1947, Stingo moves to Brooklyn to write a novel, and is befriended by Sophie Zawistowski, a Polish immigrant, and her emotionally unstable lover, Nathan Landau. When Stingo confronts Sophie with this, she admits the truth and tells him about her war-time lover, Józef, who lived with his half-sister, Wanda, and was a leader in the Resistance.
Movie vs Book
Year
1982
Minutes
150
Movie Rate
7.60
Source: IMDb
Movie
Sophie's Choice
Director: Alan J. Pakula
Country: UK
Year: 1982
Length: 2h30m
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Year
1979
Pages
562
Book Rate
8.36
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Book
Sophie's Choice
Author: William Styron
Country: USA
First published in: 1979
Length: 562 pages
Genre: Fiction
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“No author can want a movie to be exactly like the book because then it will be a bad movie.”
KATHERINE PATERSON (Writer)
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