Sophie’s Choice Gets Picked For Blu-ray

Disc Announcements

Sophie’s Choice remains among Meryl Streep’s greatest performances. She brings to life a woman who had to make the most horrifying of choices during World War II. Finally you can take in all that she brought to the role as Sophie’s Choice comes to Blu-ray on April 29. Here’s the press release from Shout! Factory.

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Sophie’s Choice
(Collector’s Edition)

TO BE RELEASED IN A BLU-RAY/DVD COMBO BY Shout! Factory ON APRIL 29

Starring Kevin Kline, Peter MacNicol, and Meryl Streep,

“So perfectly cast and well-imagined that it just takes over and happens to you.

It’s quite an experience.” – Roger Ebert

Los Angeles, CA – Shout! Factory has announced the first-ever Blu-ray release of the critically acclaimed film Sophie’s Choice. Sophie’s Choice (Collector’s Edition) will be released on April 29 in a Blu-ray/DVD combo. A new roundtable interview featuring Meryl Streep, Kevin Kline, Donald Laventhall (director Alan Pakula’s assistant during the film), Hanna Pakula (director Alan Pakula’s widow), Rose Styron (the widow of the novel’s author, William Styron) and moderator Boaty Boatwright (who was the director Alan Pakula’s agent at the time of the film and is presently an agent at ICM), is included as a bonus feature.

Starring Meryl Streep, Kevin Kline, and Peter MacNicol, and adapted from William Styron’s best-selling novel, this passionate tale of a writer’s love for a holocaust survivor is an exhilarating and compelling revelation.

Screen favorite Meryl Streep received an Academy Award® for her portrayal of Sophie Zawistowska in this penetrating drama set in post-World War II Brooklyn. Kevin Kline plays her all-consuming lover, Nathan.

The story revolves around Sophie’s struggle as a Polish-Catholic immigrant in the United States who had survived a Nazi concentration camp. The lovers’ drama unfolds through the observations of a friend and would-be writer, Stingo (Peter MacNicol). As the trio grows closer, Stingo uncovers the hidden truths that they each harbor, resulting in what Roger Ebert called “a fine, absorbing, wonderfully acted, heartbreaking movie.”

Sophie’s Choice is available on Blu-ray/DVD following a distribution agreement between Shout Factory! and rights holder ITV Studios Global Entertainment, bringing a library of acclaimed cinema classics to the home entertainment marketplace in the U.S and Canada.

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