Get the freshest reviews, news, and more delivered right to your inbox! Sophie and Grover’s friendship swiftly becomes the subject of invasive gossip — chiefly stoked by neighborhood busybody and self-appointed moral guardian Ruth (Diane Ladd) — that takes a more vindictive turn in the immediate aftermath of the Pearl Harbor bombings. And after they met, he really treated her like a princess. An eloquent, and both captivating and terrifying story playing out on the eve of the US entry into WW II, the film connects the Jim Crow South, and racism against Japanese Americans. Love story, yes. Old-fashioned craft contributions are of a piece with Greenwald’s taste for dignified sentimentality — though Keith Reamer’s editing can feel a little bluntly tied.
They strike up an unlikely friendship but when news of Pearl Harbour reaches the town Sophie realises Mr Oto is in danger from those in the small minded town who judge people on their appearance. We’d love your help. Lovely sweet story of two 50somethings finding love at the start of the second world war. And if you're curious, my other favorite movie is The Little Mermaid.
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It's a solid ten for a viewer who loves good drama, who is maybe tired of cheap thrills.
It didn't quite make it to 4 stars for me, but it was pretty close. i thought that this book would be a traditional love story with women meets man and they fall in love and live happily ever after but i really enjoyed it and have read it several times.as i am only 15 and still at school we have to do a book study on a book which moved you as a person and i fell that this book furfils that criteria. and to receive email from Rotten Tomatoes and Fandango.
Most of the reviews seem to classify this as a gentle little love story. Once upon a time a young Southern lady named Sophie fell in love with a handsome hometown fellow named Henry. I was rewarded with a tender story of love, which developed in a Southern town loaded with prejudice, hateful suspicion of other races and even of people who have different lives and thoughts. It is a devastating picture of racism.
He is employed my Miss Anne as her gardener. | Received with bewilderment by the townspeople, who mistake him for a Chinese immigrant, he’s placed in the reluctant care of local Missionary Ladies’ Society head Anne (Martindale), a kindly but no-nonsense widow whose chief joy in life is her florally abundant garden. It has romance, but not the butterfly in the stomach kind....the actual learn what love feels like kind. I am really torn about this book.
Sophie must now decide how much she is willing to risk her life a future with a man who has brought such joy into her life. When Pearl Harbor is bombed all the small town stereotypes as well as the usual prejudices come into play.
Martindale as Ann is faultless. Gripping, tantalizing and oh.... so romantic.
I'm going to look for Trobaugh's other books! This is a gorgeous, relevant film.
The gradual arrival at mutual understanding between these women makes for a richer relationship drama than Sophie’s sensual awakening at Grover’s hands. Love these quotes which those who've read the book might recall . . This story was so touching and surprised me with its depth. Just a moment while we sign you in to your Goodreads account.
Sophie (Julianne Nicholson), a non-traditional woman and a Japanese young man, Grover Ohta (Takashi Yamaguchi) are drawn to one another through their love of nature and painting. A beautiful book set in the Georgian town of Salty Creek, where we meet Mr Oto, an American of Japanese descent.
References are manifold: There is the conflict between Japan and America.
All Critics (11) I'm not so sure, because I, for one, can't really glean the ending of the story. There are several secrets in this book and the answer to the final one isn't all that clear to me. But this was so much more than a love story; it’s a friendship story and also a historical look at a very tough time especially for Japanese Americans and the people who cared about them, and the people who blamed them for everything.
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Reply. Sophie and the Rising Sun by Augusta Trobaugh is an exquisitely told tale set in a small Georgia town, complete with the standard righteous town busybody and all the prejudices of small towns in the Deep South in the early 1940s. Mr Oto is a lonely American Japanese who has run away from his family in California and become a gardener for a Southern lady, Miss Anne, in a small seaside town in Georgia.
Cinemark It was when WWII was starting. [that the author trades the emotional payload of showing the lovers' fate for a mysterious, mythic ending. A friendship forms. Genres & Themes |
There is nothing better than just stumbling upon a book while perusing at the library, knowing nothing about it, and discovering that you have found a gem. This was a beautifully written look at the south during the time of Pearl Harbor and everything changed for Mr. Oto and the women in his life his boss Miss Ann and his friend (and woman he loves) Miss Sophie. Tepid and tentative, “Sophie and the Rising Sun,” based on a 2001 novel by Augusta Trobaugh, is an old-fashioned ode to female solidarity. |, February 2, 2017
One one hand, I see a beautiful love story... Oto loves Sophie right away, and his is a beautiful love. There are some wonderful characters in this novel and of course a town troublemaker, who has been causing Sophie trouble most of her life. The low rating should be ignored.
See this movie if you can. With many incensed locals out for Japanese blood (though they remain uncertain of “the Chinaman’s” ethnicity), Grover is forced into hiding, while Sophie is made a town pariah. The young woman waited for nearly 30 years, resigned to a lonely existence.
It is a love story beyond compare.
Mr. Oto, a “foreign” man, arrives half-starved and becomes Miss Anne’s “Chinese” gardener. |, January 23, 2016 Sidney Poitier’s 7 Most Memorable Performances, All Harry Potter Movies Ranked Worst to Best by Tomatometer. In that case, we can't... A radiant novel that gets the rhythms and cadences of small-town life exactly right. User Ratings Given the script’s sketchiest character arc, Yamaguchi remains a somewhat inscrutable figure of moral virtue to the end, while his attraction to Nicholson’s demure, autumnally beautiful Sophie — despite a love scene richly lensed in dusky-gold shadow — never quite achieves an unscripted immediacy. I rarely give a book my highest 5 star rating, but I have added this one to my list. I was entranced by the beautiful hearts of the main characters, especially Mr. Oto's.
I have lived in small Southern towns with these suspicions, and experienced that hatr. I actually didn't want the story to end.
Get the freshest reviews, news, and more delivered right to your inbox! Sophie and Grover’s friendship swiftly becomes the subject of invasive gossip — chiefly stoked by neighborhood busybody and self-appointed moral guardian Ruth (Diane Ladd) — that takes a more vindictive turn in the immediate aftermath of the Pearl Harbor bombings. And after they met, he really treated her like a princess. An eloquent, and both captivating and terrifying story playing out on the eve of the US entry into WW II, the film connects the Jim Crow South, and racism against Japanese Americans. Love story, yes. Old-fashioned craft contributions are of a piece with Greenwald’s taste for dignified sentimentality — though Keith Reamer’s editing can feel a little bluntly tied.
They strike up an unlikely friendship but when news of Pearl Harbour reaches the town Sophie realises Mr Oto is in danger from those in the small minded town who judge people on their appearance. We’d love your help. Lovely sweet story of two 50somethings finding love at the start of the second world war. And if you're curious, my other favorite movie is The Little Mermaid.
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It's a solid ten for a viewer who loves good drama, who is maybe tired of cheap thrills.
It didn't quite make it to 4 stars for me, but it was pretty close. i thought that this book would be a traditional love story with women meets man and they fall in love and live happily ever after but i really enjoyed it and have read it several times.as i am only 15 and still at school we have to do a book study on a book which moved you as a person and i fell that this book furfils that criteria. and to receive email from Rotten Tomatoes and Fandango.
Most of the reviews seem to classify this as a gentle little love story. Once upon a time a young Southern lady named Sophie fell in love with a handsome hometown fellow named Henry. I was rewarded with a tender story of love, which developed in a Southern town loaded with prejudice, hateful suspicion of other races and even of people who have different lives and thoughts. It is a devastating picture of racism.
He is employed my Miss Anne as her gardener. | Received with bewilderment by the townspeople, who mistake him for a Chinese immigrant, he’s placed in the reluctant care of local Missionary Ladies’ Society head Anne (Martindale), a kindly but no-nonsense widow whose chief joy in life is her florally abundant garden. It has romance, but not the butterfly in the stomach kind....the actual learn what love feels like kind. I am really torn about this book.
Sophie must now decide how much she is willing to risk her life a future with a man who has brought such joy into her life. When Pearl Harbor is bombed all the small town stereotypes as well as the usual prejudices come into play.
Martindale as Ann is faultless. Gripping, tantalizing and oh.... so romantic.
I'm going to look for Trobaugh's other books! This is a gorgeous, relevant film.
The gradual arrival at mutual understanding between these women makes for a richer relationship drama than Sophie’s sensual awakening at Grover’s hands. Love these quotes which those who've read the book might recall . . This story was so touching and surprised me with its depth. Just a moment while we sign you in to your Goodreads account.
Sophie (Julianne Nicholson), a non-traditional woman and a Japanese young man, Grover Ohta (Takashi Yamaguchi) are drawn to one another through their love of nature and painting. A beautiful book set in the Georgian town of Salty Creek, where we meet Mr Oto, an American of Japanese descent.
References are manifold: There is the conflict between Japan and America.
All Critics (11) I'm not so sure, because I, for one, can't really glean the ending of the story. There are several secrets in this book and the answer to the final one isn't all that clear to me. But this was so much more than a love story; it’s a friendship story and also a historical look at a very tough time especially for Japanese Americans and the people who cared about them, and the people who blamed them for everything.
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Reply. Sophie and the Rising Sun by Augusta Trobaugh is an exquisitely told tale set in a small Georgia town, complete with the standard righteous town busybody and all the prejudices of small towns in the Deep South in the early 1940s. Mr Oto is a lonely American Japanese who has run away from his family in California and become a gardener for a Southern lady, Miss Anne, in a small seaside town in Georgia.
Cinemark It was when WWII was starting. [that the author trades the emotional payload of showing the lovers' fate for a mysterious, mythic ending. A friendship forms. Genres & Themes |
There is nothing better than just stumbling upon a book while perusing at the library, knowing nothing about it, and discovering that you have found a gem. This was a beautifully written look at the south during the time of Pearl Harbor and everything changed for Mr. Oto and the women in his life his boss Miss Ann and his friend (and woman he loves) Miss Sophie. Tepid and tentative, “Sophie and the Rising Sun,” based on a 2001 novel by Augusta Trobaugh, is an old-fashioned ode to female solidarity. |, February 2, 2017
One one hand, I see a beautiful love story... Oto loves Sophie right away, and his is a beautiful love. There are some wonderful characters in this novel and of course a town troublemaker, who has been causing Sophie trouble most of her life. The low rating should be ignored.
See this movie if you can. With many incensed locals out for Japanese blood (though they remain uncertain of “the Chinaman’s” ethnicity), Grover is forced into hiding, while Sophie is made a town pariah. The young woman waited for nearly 30 years, resigned to a lonely existence.
It is a love story beyond compare.
Mr. Oto, a “foreign” man, arrives half-starved and becomes Miss Anne’s “Chinese” gardener. |, January 23, 2016 Sidney Poitier’s 7 Most Memorable Performances, All Harry Potter Movies Ranked Worst to Best by Tomatometer. In that case, we can't... A radiant novel that gets the rhythms and cadences of small-town life exactly right. User Ratings Given the script’s sketchiest character arc, Yamaguchi remains a somewhat inscrutable figure of moral virtue to the end, while his attraction to Nicholson’s demure, autumnally beautiful Sophie — despite a love scene richly lensed in dusky-gold shadow — never quite achieves an unscripted immediacy. I rarely give a book my highest 5 star rating, but I have added this one to my list. I was entranced by the beautiful hearts of the main characters, especially Mr. Oto's.
I have lived in small Southern towns with these suspicions, and experienced that hatr. I actually didn't want the story to end.
Get the freshest reviews, news, and more delivered right to your inbox! Sophie and Grover’s friendship swiftly becomes the subject of invasive gossip — chiefly stoked by neighborhood busybody and self-appointed moral guardian Ruth (Diane Ladd) — that takes a more vindictive turn in the immediate aftermath of the Pearl Harbor bombings. And after they met, he really treated her like a princess. An eloquent, and both captivating and terrifying story playing out on the eve of the US entry into WW II, the film connects the Jim Crow South, and racism against Japanese Americans. Love story, yes. Old-fashioned craft contributions are of a piece with Greenwald’s taste for dignified sentimentality — though Keith Reamer’s editing can feel a little bluntly tied.
They strike up an unlikely friendship but when news of Pearl Harbour reaches the town Sophie realises Mr Oto is in danger from those in the small minded town who judge people on their appearance. We’d love your help. Lovely sweet story of two 50somethings finding love at the start of the second world war. And if you're curious, my other favorite movie is The Little Mermaid.
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It's a solid ten for a viewer who loves good drama, who is maybe tired of cheap thrills.
It didn't quite make it to 4 stars for me, but it was pretty close. i thought that this book would be a traditional love story with women meets man and they fall in love and live happily ever after but i really enjoyed it and have read it several times.as i am only 15 and still at school we have to do a book study on a book which moved you as a person and i fell that this book furfils that criteria. and to receive email from Rotten Tomatoes and Fandango.
Most of the reviews seem to classify this as a gentle little love story. Once upon a time a young Southern lady named Sophie fell in love with a handsome hometown fellow named Henry. I was rewarded with a tender story of love, which developed in a Southern town loaded with prejudice, hateful suspicion of other races and even of people who have different lives and thoughts. It is a devastating picture of racism.
He is employed my Miss Anne as her gardener. | Received with bewilderment by the townspeople, who mistake him for a Chinese immigrant, he’s placed in the reluctant care of local Missionary Ladies’ Society head Anne (Martindale), a kindly but no-nonsense widow whose chief joy in life is her florally abundant garden. It has romance, but not the butterfly in the stomach kind....the actual learn what love feels like kind. I am really torn about this book.
Sophie must now decide how much she is willing to risk her life a future with a man who has brought such joy into her life. When Pearl Harbor is bombed all the small town stereotypes as well as the usual prejudices come into play.
Martindale as Ann is faultless. Gripping, tantalizing and oh.... so romantic.
I'm going to look for Trobaugh's other books! This is a gorgeous, relevant film.
The gradual arrival at mutual understanding between these women makes for a richer relationship drama than Sophie’s sensual awakening at Grover’s hands. Love these quotes which those who've read the book might recall . . This story was so touching and surprised me with its depth. Just a moment while we sign you in to your Goodreads account.
Sophie (Julianne Nicholson), a non-traditional woman and a Japanese young man, Grover Ohta (Takashi Yamaguchi) are drawn to one another through their love of nature and painting. A beautiful book set in the Georgian town of Salty Creek, where we meet Mr Oto, an American of Japanese descent.
References are manifold: There is the conflict between Japan and America.
All Critics (11) I'm not so sure, because I, for one, can't really glean the ending of the story. There are several secrets in this book and the answer to the final one isn't all that clear to me. But this was so much more than a love story; it’s a friendship story and also a historical look at a very tough time especially for Japanese Americans and the people who cared about them, and the people who blamed them for everything.
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Reply. Sophie and the Rising Sun by Augusta Trobaugh is an exquisitely told tale set in a small Georgia town, complete with the standard righteous town busybody and all the prejudices of small towns in the Deep South in the early 1940s. Mr Oto is a lonely American Japanese who has run away from his family in California and become a gardener for a Southern lady, Miss Anne, in a small seaside town in Georgia.
Cinemark It was when WWII was starting. [that the author trades the emotional payload of showing the lovers' fate for a mysterious, mythic ending. A friendship forms. Genres & Themes |
There is nothing better than just stumbling upon a book while perusing at the library, knowing nothing about it, and discovering that you have found a gem. This was a beautifully written look at the south during the time of Pearl Harbor and everything changed for Mr. Oto and the women in his life his boss Miss Ann and his friend (and woman he loves) Miss Sophie. Tepid and tentative, “Sophie and the Rising Sun,” based on a 2001 novel by Augusta Trobaugh, is an old-fashioned ode to female solidarity. |, February 2, 2017
One one hand, I see a beautiful love story... Oto loves Sophie right away, and his is a beautiful love. There are some wonderful characters in this novel and of course a town troublemaker, who has been causing Sophie trouble most of her life. The low rating should be ignored.
See this movie if you can. With many incensed locals out for Japanese blood (though they remain uncertain of “the Chinaman’s” ethnicity), Grover is forced into hiding, while Sophie is made a town pariah. The young woman waited for nearly 30 years, resigned to a lonely existence.
It is a love story beyond compare.
Mr. Oto, a “foreign” man, arrives half-starved and becomes Miss Anne’s “Chinese” gardener. |, January 23, 2016 Sidney Poitier’s 7 Most Memorable Performances, All Harry Potter Movies Ranked Worst to Best by Tomatometer. In that case, we can't... A radiant novel that gets the rhythms and cadences of small-town life exactly right. User Ratings Given the script’s sketchiest character arc, Yamaguchi remains a somewhat inscrutable figure of moral virtue to the end, while his attraction to Nicholson’s demure, autumnally beautiful Sophie — despite a love scene richly lensed in dusky-gold shadow — never quite achieves an unscripted immediacy. I rarely give a book my highest 5 star rating, but I have added this one to my list. I was entranced by the beautiful hearts of the main characters, especially Mr. Oto's.
I have lived in small Southern towns with these suspicions, and experienced that hatr. I actually didn't want the story to end.
With beautiful cinematography, breathtaking scenery and strong characters. But this was so much more than a love story; it’s a friendship story and also a historical look at a very tough time espe.
They won't be able to see your review if you only submit your rating. I imagine Takeshi Kaneshiro would make the perfect Mr. Oto but they cast a different actor. A very moving story about an extraordinary love and a town's prejudice during World War II.
The image is an example of a ticket confirmation email that AMC sent you when you purchased your ticket. Sophie paints nature and Grover paints Sophie. This is a great love story that is super clean. It is romantic in the very best way, pitting the idealism of love against the cold realities of circumstance. To explain my title, Sophie and the rising sun has everything except shooting, explosions, and car chases. I have read several books by this author, but this is the best. This tender book was utterly delightful. I knew the synopsis - basically that a middle-aged spinster forms a friendship, perhaps more, with the Japanese gardener working for a friend right at the onset of America's involvement in WWII; that could go any number of ways. I don't mean to imply that it's a sad ending.
This short novel is full of caring, compassionate characdters. All rights reserved.
I was drawn to it - the cover, the feel of it in my hands. . Your Ticket Confirmation # is located under the header in your email that reads "Your Ticket Reservation Details". Nicholson as Sophie is luminous. | Rating: 3/4 When the Japanese bomb Pearl Harbor, Mr. Oto's newfound life comes under siege, he can't be certain of his safety, even in Salty Creek. The reserves of hate and reactionary malice that can lie not far beneath the smiling church-and-cookies veneer of American suburbia is hardly unexplored territory on film, and Greenwald doesn’t navigate it with as much discretion or nuance as she does Sophie’s personal blossoming.
Get the freshest reviews, news, and more delivered right to your inbox! Sophie and Grover’s friendship swiftly becomes the subject of invasive gossip — chiefly stoked by neighborhood busybody and self-appointed moral guardian Ruth (Diane Ladd) — that takes a more vindictive turn in the immediate aftermath of the Pearl Harbor bombings. And after they met, he really treated her like a princess. An eloquent, and both captivating and terrifying story playing out on the eve of the US entry into WW II, the film connects the Jim Crow South, and racism against Japanese Americans. Love story, yes. Old-fashioned craft contributions are of a piece with Greenwald’s taste for dignified sentimentality — though Keith Reamer’s editing can feel a little bluntly tied.
They strike up an unlikely friendship but when news of Pearl Harbour reaches the town Sophie realises Mr Oto is in danger from those in the small minded town who judge people on their appearance. We’d love your help. Lovely sweet story of two 50somethings finding love at the start of the second world war. And if you're curious, my other favorite movie is The Little Mermaid.
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It's a solid ten for a viewer who loves good drama, who is maybe tired of cheap thrills.
It didn't quite make it to 4 stars for me, but it was pretty close. i thought that this book would be a traditional love story with women meets man and they fall in love and live happily ever after but i really enjoyed it and have read it several times.as i am only 15 and still at school we have to do a book study on a book which moved you as a person and i fell that this book furfils that criteria. and to receive email from Rotten Tomatoes and Fandango.
Most of the reviews seem to classify this as a gentle little love story. Once upon a time a young Southern lady named Sophie fell in love with a handsome hometown fellow named Henry. I was rewarded with a tender story of love, which developed in a Southern town loaded with prejudice, hateful suspicion of other races and even of people who have different lives and thoughts. It is a devastating picture of racism.
He is employed my Miss Anne as her gardener. | Received with bewilderment by the townspeople, who mistake him for a Chinese immigrant, he’s placed in the reluctant care of local Missionary Ladies’ Society head Anne (Martindale), a kindly but no-nonsense widow whose chief joy in life is her florally abundant garden. It has romance, but not the butterfly in the stomach kind....the actual learn what love feels like kind. I am really torn about this book.
Sophie must now decide how much she is willing to risk her life a future with a man who has brought such joy into her life. When Pearl Harbor is bombed all the small town stereotypes as well as the usual prejudices come into play.
Martindale as Ann is faultless. Gripping, tantalizing and oh.... so romantic.
I'm going to look for Trobaugh's other books! This is a gorgeous, relevant film.
The gradual arrival at mutual understanding between these women makes for a richer relationship drama than Sophie’s sensual awakening at Grover’s hands. Love these quotes which those who've read the book might recall . . This story was so touching and surprised me with its depth. Just a moment while we sign you in to your Goodreads account.
Sophie (Julianne Nicholson), a non-traditional woman and a Japanese young man, Grover Ohta (Takashi Yamaguchi) are drawn to one another through their love of nature and painting. A beautiful book set in the Georgian town of Salty Creek, where we meet Mr Oto, an American of Japanese descent.
References are manifold: There is the conflict between Japan and America.
All Critics (11) I'm not so sure, because I, for one, can't really glean the ending of the story. There are several secrets in this book and the answer to the final one isn't all that clear to me. But this was so much more than a love story; it’s a friendship story and also a historical look at a very tough time especially for Japanese Americans and the people who cared about them, and the people who blamed them for everything.
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Reply. Sophie and the Rising Sun by Augusta Trobaugh is an exquisitely told tale set in a small Georgia town, complete with the standard righteous town busybody and all the prejudices of small towns in the Deep South in the early 1940s. Mr Oto is a lonely American Japanese who has run away from his family in California and become a gardener for a Southern lady, Miss Anne, in a small seaside town in Georgia.
Cinemark It was when WWII was starting. [that the author trades the emotional payload of showing the lovers' fate for a mysterious, mythic ending. A friendship forms. Genres & Themes |
There is nothing better than just stumbling upon a book while perusing at the library, knowing nothing about it, and discovering that you have found a gem. This was a beautifully written look at the south during the time of Pearl Harbor and everything changed for Mr. Oto and the women in his life his boss Miss Ann and his friend (and woman he loves) Miss Sophie. Tepid and tentative, “Sophie and the Rising Sun,” based on a 2001 novel by Augusta Trobaugh, is an old-fashioned ode to female solidarity. |, February 2, 2017
One one hand, I see a beautiful love story... Oto loves Sophie right away, and his is a beautiful love. There are some wonderful characters in this novel and of course a town troublemaker, who has been causing Sophie trouble most of her life. The low rating should be ignored.
See this movie if you can. With many incensed locals out for Japanese blood (though they remain uncertain of “the Chinaman’s” ethnicity), Grover is forced into hiding, while Sophie is made a town pariah. The young woman waited for nearly 30 years, resigned to a lonely existence.
It is a love story beyond compare.
Mr. Oto, a “foreign” man, arrives half-starved and becomes Miss Anne’s “Chinese” gardener. |, January 23, 2016 Sidney Poitier’s 7 Most Memorable Performances, All Harry Potter Movies Ranked Worst to Best by Tomatometer. In that case, we can't... A radiant novel that gets the rhythms and cadences of small-town life exactly right. User Ratings Given the script’s sketchiest character arc, Yamaguchi remains a somewhat inscrutable figure of moral virtue to the end, while his attraction to Nicholson’s demure, autumnally beautiful Sophie — despite a love scene richly lensed in dusky-gold shadow — never quite achieves an unscripted immediacy. I rarely give a book my highest 5 star rating, but I have added this one to my list. I was entranced by the beautiful hearts of the main characters, especially Mr. Oto's.
I have lived in small Southern towns with these suspicions, and experienced that hatr. I actually didn't want the story to end.