Kevin Kline is TERRIBLE in this movie!
I liked Sophie's Choice... but unfortunately I didn't love it. I agree with many on this board that Meryl Streep's performance is truly one of the greatest performances ever! I think Peter MacNichol was very interesting looking when he was younger. I really liked the way he smiled by opening his mouth wide. I know from his recent work that he doesn't naturally smile that way and I've got to say that the smile made him very likable.
The two flashback scenes to the concentration camp were amazing--and the scene with the "choice" is one of the best scenes I've ever seen.
That all being said, I HATED Kevin Kline's performance in this film!!! He is terrible. He overacts every single scene. It seems to me that we are supposed to like his character and ultimately feel sorry for his ailment, but I DESPISED the character and the performance. His performance almost completely ruined the movie for me!
Other than Wild Wild West (in my opinion one of the three worst movies ever made), I have really enjoyed Kline's acting and the over the top style worked great in A Fish Called Wanda. But oh how I wish I could go back in time and clobber the casting director over the head and cast the movie myself with Meryl Streep, Peter MacNichol (though I also thought Timothy Hutton or Matthew Broderick would have been interesting choices for Slingo) and with Martin Sheen or Richard Dreyfuss as Nathan!