Sophie and the Rising Sun
2016 · Movie · R · 116 min · ★ 6.7 · 60% critics
In a small Southern town in 1941, a lonely woman’s life changes when an Asian man arrives under mysterious circumstances. As their relationship grows, the coming war stirs buried prejudice, fear, and conflict in the community.
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Details
- Years
- 2016
- Release date
- 2016-01-27
- Language
- English
- Rated
- R
- Runtime
- 116 min
- Max quality
- HD
- Critic score
- 60/100
- TMDB rating
- 6.7/10 (31 votes)
About
You may like this if you enjoy restrained period romances with social tension, like Suite Française or Come See the Paradise; Not for you if you want a light, fast-moving love story.
Pros: emotional wartime romance; tense social conflict; intimate small-town setting | Cons: heavy subject matter; slow-burning pace; bigotry and violence
Themes
- based on novel or book
- world war ii
- south carolina
- interracial relationship
- woman director
- 1940s
Cast & crew
Julianne Nicholson
as Sophie Willis
Takashi Yamaguchi
as Grover Ohta
Margo Martindale
as Anne Morrison
Diane Ladd
as Ruth Jeffers
Lorraine Toussaint
as Salome Whitmore
Karen Wheeling Reynolds
as Isabel
Mickey Dodge
as Samille
Don Henderson Baker
as Dr. Gilbert
Joel Murray
as Sheriff Cooper
- DR
David Dickson Reynolds
as Reverend Jeffers
Directed by Maggie Greenwald