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Director: Joe Wright
Producers: Paul Webster, Eric Fellner,
Tim Bevan; Co-producer: Jane Frazer
Distributed by: Working
Title Films
Release date: 2007
Writing credits: Ian McEwan (novel)
& Christopher Hampton (screenplay)
Director of Photography: Seamus McGarvey
Costume Designer: Jacqueline Durran
Principal Cast & Characters:
Celia: Keira Knightley
Robbie: James McAvoy
Briony (at thirteen): Saoirse Ronan
Briony (at eighteen): Romola Garai
Grace: Brenda Blethyn
Lola: Juno Temple
Leon: Patrick Kennedy
Paul Marshall: Benedict Cumberbatch
The film adaptation of McEwan's novel Atonement
was recently nominated for seven Golden Globe, including:
Best Motion Picture (Drama)
Best Actress (Keira Knightley)
Best Actor (James McAvoy)
Best Actress in a Supporting Role (Saoirse Ronan)
Best Director (Joe Wright)
Best Screenplay (Christopher Hampton)
Best Original Score (Dario Marianelli)
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On the hottest day of the summer of 1935,
thirteen-year-old Briony Tallis sees her older sister Cecilia
strip off her clothes and plunge into the fountain in the
garden of their country house. Watching Cecilia is their housekeeper's
son Robbie Turner, a childhood friend who, along with Briony's
sister, has recently graduated from Cambridge. By the end
of that day the lives of all three will have been changed
forever. Robbie and Cecilia will have crossed a boundary they
had never before dared to approach and will have become victims
of the younger girl's scheming imagination, and Briony will
have committed a dreadful crime, the guilt for which will
colour her entire life.
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