The movie, Sophie's Choice, centers on Sophie Zawistowska, the tragic Polish Catholic beauty, who having survived Auschwitz, has settled in America after World War II.  The plot of the movie includes a 22 year-old aspiring writer from rural Virginia who rents a room at a Brooklyn boarding house.  The writer is drawn to his exotic upstair neighbors who are a madly romantic couple whose instability and life style capture his imagination.  The better the writer gets to know his neighbors, however, the more he learns that each harbors terrible and terrifying secrets.  This movie is based on the best-selling novel by William Styron and is a personalized view of the Holocaust and its devestating effect on one woman who survived the experience.  Starring Meryl Streep, Kevin Kline and Peter MacNicol among others.  Full screen in color.  Released in 1982.  Runtime 155 minutes.