Official Movie Website Theatrical Release 12/07/07 (Limited) 12/14/07 (St. Louis) 01/04/08 (Wide) Home Video 03/18/08 MPAA Rating Rated R for disturbing war images, language and some sexuality Running Time 2 hours 3 minutes Genre Drama Director Joe Wright Writer Christopher Hampton Cast Keira Knightley, James McAvoy, Romola Garai, Vanessa Redgrave, Brenda Blethyn Studio Focus Features |
ATONEMENT (2007)
SYNOPSIS
Based on Ian McEwan’s best-selling 2002 novel
ATONEMENT. In 1935, 13-year-old fledgling writer
Briony Tallis (Ronan) and her family live a life of
wealth and privilege in their enormous mansion. On
the warmest day of the year, the country estate
takes on an unsettling hothouse atmosphere,
stoking Briony’s vivid imagination. Robbie Turner
(McAvoy), the educated son of the family’s
housekeeper, carries a torch for Briony’s
headstrong older sister Cecilia (Knightley). Cecilia,
he hopes, has comparable feelings; all it will take is
one spark for this relationship to combust. When it
does, Briony – who has a crush on Robbie – is
compelled to interfere, going so far as accusing
Robbie of a crime he did not commit. Cecilia and
Robbie declare their love for each other, but he is
arrested – and with Briony bearing false witness,
the course of three lives is changed forever.
Briony continues to seek forgiveness for her
childhood misdeed. Through a terrible and
courageous act of imagination, she finds the path to
her uncertain ATONEMENT, and to an understanding
of the power of enduring love.
--© Focus Features
Based on Ian McEwan’s best-selling 2002 novel
ATONEMENT. In 1935, 13-year-old fledgling writer
Briony Tallis (Ronan) and her family live a life of
wealth and privilege in their enormous mansion. On
the warmest day of the year, the country estate
takes on an unsettling hothouse atmosphere,
stoking Briony’s vivid imagination. Robbie Turner
(McAvoy), the educated son of the family’s
housekeeper, carries a torch for Briony’s
headstrong older sister Cecilia (Knightley). Cecilia,
he hopes, has comparable feelings; all it will take is
one spark for this relationship to combust. When it
does, Briony – who has a crush on Robbie – is
compelled to interfere, going so far as accusing
Robbie of a crime he did not commit. Cecilia and
Robbie declare their love for each other, but he is
arrested – and with Briony bearing false witness,
the course of three lives is changed forever.
Briony continues to seek forgiveness for her
childhood misdeed. Through a terrible and
courageous act of imagination, she finds the path to
her uncertain ATONEMENT, and to an understanding
of the power of enduring love.
--© Focus Features
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