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Name: Mrs. Soffel
Released: 1984-12-26
Cast: Diane Keaton, Mel Gibson, Matthew Modine, Edward Herrmann, Trini Alvarado

Mrs. Soffel

PG-13
1h 50m
1984

46%

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Academy Award winners Mel Gibson and Diane Keaton star in a drama based on the true story of the forbidden romance between Ed Biddle and Mrs. Soffel. 1901. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Wife and mother Kate Soffel (Keaton) chafes within the confines of her repressive life and yearns for something more than her proper, boring husband can offer. She devotes her free time to reading to the inmates of the county prison--where she meets and falls in love with handsome, charming, murderer Ed Biddle (Gibson). Now, her passion leads Kate to abandon her husband, her children and her place in society to help Ed escape from prison and join him in a desperate, doomed, romantic dash for freedom across the border in Canada.

Director:

Gillian Armstrong

Producer:

Scott Rudin, Edgar J. Scherick

Writer:

Ron Nyswaner

Cast:

Diane Keaton, Mel Gibson, Matthew Modine, Edward Herrmann, Trini Alvarado, Jennifer Dundas, Danny Corkill, Harley Cross, Terry O'Quinn

Rotten Tomatoes® Score

TOMATOMETER®

46%

Reviews

The New Yorker

Pauline Kael

What's daring in the way Gillian Armstrong presents this love story is that we don’t quite trust the emotions of either Kate Soffel or Ed Biddle. She’s sickly, frustrated, unstable; he’s an opportunist, with only one opportunity -- to make her love him.

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Gay Community News (Boston)

Michael Bronski

Mrs. Soffel is a well-made, intelligent view of a woman’s life and choices. Beautiful to look at, measured and thoughtful in its content.

In "Mrs. Soffel," director Gillian Armstrong is so enthralled with her feminist message that she never lets her story breathe.

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