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 Joe Wright, the BAFTA Award- winning director of Pride & Prejudice, has reunited with his filmmaking team and his Academy Award- nominated actress, Keira Knightley, for another classic British romance, starring James McAvoy (BAFTA Award nominee for The Last King of Scotland) opposite Ms. Knightley. Christopher Hampton (Academy Award winner for Dangerous Liaisons) has written the screenplay adaptation of Ian McEwan's best-selling 2002 novel Atonement. Shot on location in the U.K., the film's story spans several decades. In 1935, 13-year-old fledgling writer Briony Tallis (Saoirse 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 (Mr. McAvoy), the educated son of the family's housekeeper, carries a torch for Briony's headstrong older sister Cecilia (Ms. 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.
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Directed by
Joe Wright
Starring
Saoirse Ronan (Briony Tallis, age 13)
Brenda Blethyn (Grace Turner)
Julia West (Betty)
James McAvoy (Robbie Turner)
Harriet Walter (Emily Tallis)
Keira Knightley (Cecilia Tallis)
Juno Temple (Lola Quincey)
Felix von Simson (Pierrot Quincey)
Charlie von Simson (Jackson Quincey)
Alfie Allen (Danny Hardman)
Patrick Kennedy (Leon Tallis)
Benedict Cumberbatch (Paul Marshall)
Romola Garai (Briony, age 18)
Vanessa Redgrave (Older Briony)
Peter Wight (Police Inspector)
Leander Deeny (Police Constable)
Peter O'Connor (Police Sergeant)
Daniel Mays (Tommy Nettle)
Nonso Anozie (Frank Mace)
Michel Vuillermoz (Frenchman #1)
Nick Bagnall (Soldier in Bray Bar #3)
Charlie Banks (Probationary Nurse #1)
Jamie Beamish (Soldier in Bray Bar #1)
Madeline Crowe (Probationary Nurse #2)
Scarlett Dalton (Probationary Nurse #3)
Michelle Duncan (Fiona Maguire)
Matthew Forest (Second Soldier at Hospital Entrance)
Vivienne Gibbs (Staff Nurse)
Olivia Grant (Probationary Nurse #4)
Ben Harcourt (Jackson, 14)
Jack Harcourt (Pierrot, 14)
Mark Holgate (Soldier at Hospital Entrance)
Ryan Kiggell (Registrar)
Katy Lawrence (Probationary Nurse #5)
Neil Maskell (Soldier in Bray Bar #5)
Gina McKee (Sister Drummond)
Anthony Minghella (Interviewer)
Jade Moulla (Probationary Nurse #6)
John Normington (Vicar)
Georgia Oakley (Probationary Nurse #7)
Alice Orr-Ewing (Probationary Nurse #8)
Catherine Philps (Probationary Nurse #9)
Jay Quinn (Soldier Who Looks Like Robbie)
Bryony Reiss (Probationary Nurse #1o)
Jérémie Renier (Luc Cornet)
Kelly Scott (Hospital Admin Assistant)
Billy Seymour (Soldier in Bray Bar #4)
Sarah Shaul (Probationary Nurse #11)
Richard Stacey (Injured Sergeant)
Emily Thomson (Probationary Nurse #13)
Tilly Vosburgh (Mother of Evacuees)
Ben Webb (Evacuee Child #3)
Written by
Christopher Hampton
Ian McEwan (novel)
Rated: 
(for disturbing war images, language and some sexuality) |
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Atonement
by Ian McEwan
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