Strong performances highlight timely period drama 'Sophie and the Rising Sun'
Seventeen years after “Songcatcher,†filmmaker Maggie Greenwald offers another sensitively crafted period melodrama with “Sophie and the Rising Sun,†set in South Carolina during the weeks before the attack on Pearl Harbor. Directing her adaptation of the 2001 romance novel by Augusta Trobaugh,...
L.A. Times - Entertainment — Seventeen years after “Songcatcher,†filmmaker Maggie Greenwald offers another sensitively crafted period melodrama with “Sophie and the Rising Sun,â... more info