Mrs. Soffel

1984
PG-13
1h 50m

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6.1/10

3.7K

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Diane Keaton stars as a prison warden's wife who falls in love with a death row convict (Mel Gibson.) Believing he's innocent, she helps him and his convicted brother escape.

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Diane Keaton stars as a prison warden's wife who falls in love with a death row convict (Mel Gibson.) Believing he's innocent, she helps him and his convicted brother escape.Diane Keaton stars as a prison warden's wife who falls in love with a death row convict (Mel Gibson.) Believing he's innocent, she helps him and his convicted brother escape.Diane Keaton stars as a prison warden's wife who falls in love with a death row convict (Mel Gibson.) Believing he's innocent, she helps him and his convicted brother escape.

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IMDb RATING

6.1/10

3.7K

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See production info at IMDbPro

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- 3 nominations

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Trivia
The jail used in the movie is the actual Allegheny County Jail that figures in the story. Designed by noted architect Henry Hobson Richardson, built between 1884-1888, it served as a jail until 1995 and is now used by the juvenile and family sections of the Common Pleas Court.

Goofs
A toy electric train shown running around a Christmas tree is of a post-1950 design, as is the track. The train is based on 19th-century locomotive and passenger car prototypes, making it more plausible. However, toy electric trains that even remotely resembled the one shown did not exist by 1901.

Quotes
Kate Soffel: Don't you let them take me alive, Ed. Promise me. Promise me, Ed.
Ed Biddle: I won't, I promise. I won't let them take you.

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Featured in The Making of 'Mrs. Soffel' (1984)

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touching film. not only for story but for the isle of silence. for inspired acting. and for the flavor of a situation in perfect measure and form. it is not original or a revelation. good actors and correct performance. seductive script and a special lady Bovary. one of promising roles of Mel Gibson and a Matthew Modine with the Streamers dust circle as basic instrument for create his role.after years, important part is aura of film. the dark, the halls, the snow, the tension. and Diane Keaton art to transform the pieces who defines her role in a delicate precise construction. a movie - source of a state of soul. touching, bitter, nice, admirable in a different form. like a large lake in gloomy afternoon.