arguably meryl streep most compelling performance . and lord know the woman have turn in a few during her career . i find myself delighted and beguile and enchant and crush and ultimately reduce to a drain and empty shell by the film end while it take several day thereafter to fully recover . her vulnerability and honesty be as inescapable a her demon . and you can not help but be draw into such a real sense of both conflict and compassion and duty and despair . this film completely melt my face off while cement an admiration and awe i rarely experience from an actor performance . all due respect to both kline and macnichol for their fine portrayal and but really the movie begin and end with streep haunting and brilliant and enormously human turn a sophie . this be a must see film albeit a gut wrenching experience . totally amazing .