"Film adaptations"@en . . . . . "\"Sophie and Otto Bentwood are set in their ways. And unsettled in their hearts. They're Desperate Characters, trapped in a marriage that no longer works ... yet unable to break free. In a performance widely cited as a career breakthrough, Shirley MacLaine portrays Sophie in this compelling, grown-up drama that, in its own jolting way, is a love story.\""@en . "Video recordings for the hearing impaired"@en . . . . "Melodrama"@en . . . . . . . . . "Desperate characters"@en . "Feature films"@en . . . . "Fiction films"@en . . . . . . . . . . "Drama"@en . . . "A slice-of-life story about two disillusioned New Yorkers as they struggle to come to grips with the \"normal\" life with which they can no longer cope."@en . . . . . "ITC-TDJ Productions (Firm)" . . "Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)" . . . .