Big Sonia(2017)

1h 33m

Release Date: Nov 17, 2017 | Limited

In the last store in a defunct shopping mall, 91-year-old Sonia Warshawski - great-grandmother, businesswoman, and Holocaust survivor - runs the tailor shop she's owned for more than thirty years. But when she's served an eviction notice, the specter of retirement prompts Sonia t... Read all

Official Website

Releases

Original Release | Nov 17, 2017

Box Office Results

Results

Opening Weekend US & Canada:
$4,398
Total US & Canada:
$212,471
Total Worldwide:
$212,471

Current Showtimes

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Director & Top Cast

Todd Soliday
Director

Leah Warshawski
Director

Sonia Warshawski

SuEllen Fried

Caroline James Kennedy
Self

Regina Kort
Self

Debbie Warshawski

Self

Morrie Warshawski

Self

Technical Specifications

Sound Mix: Dolby Surround 7.1

Other Details

Country of Origin: United States

Language: English

Summaries

Storyline

For years, Sonia Warshawski has been an inspirational public speaker at schools, churches and prisons, where her stories of surviving the Holocaust as a teenager have inspired countless students, prisoners and ex-cons who once felt their own traumas would leave them broken forever. But when Sonia is served an eviction notice for her iconic tailor shop, which has thrived in the bottom of a now-abandoned mall for 35 years, she is confronted with an agonizing decision: either open up a new shop-at age 90-or retire. For a woman who admits that she stays busy "to keep the dark parts away", facing retirement dredges up fears she'd long forgot she had, and her traumatic personal past resurfaces. Following Sonia as she continues on the motivational speaker circuit (even as she navigates her own struggles) BIG SONIA explores what it means to be a survivor. Will you let your trauma define you? Or will your past make you stronger? — Leah Warshawski