Atonement Movie
Based on Ian McEwan's popular novel, the romantic drama follows Briony Tallis (Saoirse Ronan), a precocious preteen from an upper-class English family and fledgling writer with a great power of imagination. She knows about the mutual love between her elder sister Cecilia (Keira Knightley) and housekeeper's son Robby Turner (James McEvoy) and feels hurt as she has a fancy for Robbie too. So, when her 15-year-old cousin Lola Quincey (Juno Temple) becomes the victim of a rape, a string of misinterpretations, fueled by her vivid imagination and her jealousy, drives her to finger Robby as a rapist. He is arrested and sent to jail but Cecillia strongly refuses to believe her sister and becomes hostile towards her. Many years later, Briony (Romola Garai) writes a novel to expiate her guilt for her childish misdeed that irreversibly changed the course of all their lives.
Tagline
- Joined by love. Separated by fear. Redeemed by hope.
You can only imagine the truth.
Movie Info
- Year:
- 2007
- IMDB Rating:
- 8.2
- IMDB Votes:
- 4525
- Countries:
- UK, France
- Genres:
- Drama, Romance, War
- Tags:
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British, Child in peril, Title spoken by character, Sex, Beach, Flashback sequence, Profanity, Based on novel, Soldier, Teen