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.
Sophie's Choice (1982)
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Directed by: Alan J. Pakula
Starring: Meryl Streep, Kevin Kline, Peter MacNicol, Rita Karin
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.
Nathan Landau: On this bridge on which so many great Americans writers stood and reached out for words to give America its voice... looking toward the land that gave them Whitman... from its Eastern edge dreamt his country's future and gave it words... on this span of which Thomas Wolfe and Hart Crane wrote, we welcome Stingo into that pantheon of the Gods... whose words are all we know of immortality. To Stingo.