Posts Tagged ‘based-on-literary’

Sophie’s Choice (1982)

Monday, April 21st, 2008
Genres: Drama | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Meryl Streep | Peter MacNicol | Rita Karin | Stephen D. Newman | Greta Turken | Josh Mostel | Marcell Rosenblatt | Moishe Rosenfeld | Robin Bartlett | Eugene Lipinski | John Rothman | Joseph Leon | David Wohl | Nina Polan
Directors: Alan J. Pakula
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Sophie is the survivor of Nazi concentration camps, who has found a reason to live in Nathan, a sparkling if unsteady American Jew obsessed with the Holocaust. They befriend Stingo, the movie’s narrator, a young American writer new to New York City. But the happiness of Sophie and Nathan is endangered by her ghosts and his obsessions.

The Bounty (1984)

Wednesday, March 26th, 2008
Genres: Adventure | Drama | History
Countries: UK | USA
Actors: Mel Gibson | Anthony Hopkins | Laurence Olivier | Edward Fox | Daniel Day-Lewis | Bernard Hill | Philip Davis | Liam Neeson | Wi Kuki Kaa | Tevaite Vernette | Philip Martin Brown | Simon Chandler | Malcolm Terris | Simon Adams | John Sessions
Directors: Roger Donaldson
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The familiar story of Lieutenant Bligh, whose cruelty leads to a mutiny on his ship. This version follows both the efforts of Fletcher Christian to get his men beyond the reach of British retribution, and the epic voyage of Lieutenant Bligh to get his loyalists safely to East Timor in a tiny lifeboat.