Sophie's Choice (1982): Where to Watch, Cast & Facts

Sophie's Choice (1982) — an evergreen reference for this movie: the essentials, the cast, where to watch and what to watch next. Between the innocent, the romantic, the sensual, and the unthinkable. There are still some things we have yet to imagine.

Where to watch

TMDB's U.S. watch-provider data lists fuboTV, Peacock Premium, Philo, Peacock Premium Plus, Shout! Factory Amazon Channel. Availability changes by country and date, so check your streaming app before watching.

Cast

Meryl Streep as Zofia "Sophie" Zawistowski; Kevin Kline as Nathan Landau; Peter MacNicol as Stingo; Rita Karin as Yetta; Josh Mostel as Morris Fink; Robin Bartlett as Lillian Grossman; Eugene Lipinski as Polish Professor; John Rothman as Librarian

About Sophie's Choice

Stingo, a young writer, moves to Brooklyn in 1947 to begin work on his first novel. As he becomes friendly with Sophie and her lover Nathan, he learns that she is a Holocaust survivor. Flashbacks reveal her harrowing story, from pre-war prosperity to Auschwitz. In the present, Sophie and Nathan's relationship increasingly unravels as Stingo grows closer to Sophie and Nathan's fragile mental state becomes ever more apparent.

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Figures and availability come from public TMDB data and are provided as a sourced reference.