Sophie and the Rising Sun
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In a small Southern town in 1941, a lonely woman's love affair with a mysterious Asian stranger ignites bigotry and violence after Pearl Harbor.
Why watch: Margo Martindale and Julianne Nicholson. Set in 1941 South Carolina.
Cast
Julianne Nicholson as Sophie Willis
Takashi Yamaguchi as Grover Ohta
Margo Martindale as Anne Morrison
Diane Ladd as Ruth Jeffers
Lorraine Toussaint as Salome Whitmore
Karen Wheeling Reynolds as Isabel
Mickey Dodge as Samille
Don Henderson Baker as Dr. Gilbert
Joel Murray as Sheriff Cooper
David Dickson Reynolds as Reverend Jeffers
Kenneth Charles Graham as Harold Jackson
Sabrina Mayfield as Matilda
Jan Hartsell as Minna
Cali Ward as Young Sophie
Meredith Jackson as Young Ruth
Crew
Maggie Greenwald — Director
Augusta Trobaugh — Novel
Maggie Greenwald — Screenplay
Maggie Greenwald — Producer
Nancy Dickenson — Producer
Susan Lazarus — Co-Producer
Lorraine Gallard — Producer
Brenda Goodman — Producer
Donna Morong — Casting
Wolfgang Held — Director of Photography
Keith Reamer — Editor
Darcy C. Scanlin — Production Design
Jacqueline Glynn — Art Direction
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