Sophie's Choice

Continuity mistake: There is a long scene wherein Meryl Streep is sitting in a bay window going on about something. When we first see her, her eyes are brown. Moments later, they are blue. At the end of the scene they are brown again.

Continuity mistake: Meryl Streep as Sophie emotionally describes the loss of her children and rubs her eye, smudging her eyeliner which makes a small black line out to the side of her face. In the next shot, the smudge has disappeared.

Continuity mistake: When they are having the outdoor picnic celebration, Nathan gives Sophie a dress and a shoebox containing a pair of new shoes. When Sophie puts the shoes on it is obvious that the undersoles are stained and worn.

Continuity mistake: The first time the camera cuts to Sofie and Nathan, dead on the bed, Nathan's head is in one position. The second time the camera cuts to them—both dead with rigor mortis having set in long ago so their bodies are frozen stiff—Nathan's head is in a different position. Obviously, two different takes and the positions are different. (02:25:42 - 02:26:18)

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Continuity mistake: There is a long scene wherein Meryl Streep is sitting in a bay window going on about something. When we first see her, her eyes are brown. Moments later, they are blue. At the end of the scene they are brown again.

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Sophie: Stingo, you look... you look very nice, you're wearing your cocksucker.
Stingo: That's my "seersucker."

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Trivia: Meryl Streep could only bring herself to do one take of the choice scene, she begged the movie producers not to make her do it again.

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