Sophie's Choice (1982)

Alan J. Pakula directed and wrote Sophie's Choice, a 1982 American psychological drama based on William Styron's 1979 novel of the same name. Meryl Streep plays Zofia "Sophie" Zawistowski, a Polish immigrant with a tragic background who lives in Brooklyn with her stormy boyfriend Nathan and teenage writer Stingo in a boarding house. Kevin Kline (in his first feature picture), Peter MacNicol, Rita Karin, Stephen D. Newman, and Josh Mostel also star.

This brilliant picture of a Polish-Catholic Auschwitz survivor dealing with the scars of the Holocaust while living in a Brooklyn boarding home with her unstable boyfriend Nathan Landau (Kevin Kline, 73, in his feature film debut) and budding writer Stingo earned Streep her second Academy Award (Peter MacNicol, 67). And she deserved it: for the part, Streep mastered both Polish and German, and her Polish-American accent was so convincing that Roger Ebert described it as "the first accent I've ever wanted to embrace".

Detailed information:

Directed by: Alan J. Pakula

Release date: December 8, 1982

Link to watch: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0084707