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Atonement / Working Title Films ; Relativity Media ; Studio Canal ; produced by Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner, Paul Webster ; screenplay by Christopher Hampton ; directed by Joe Wright.

In 1935, 13-year-old fledgling writer Briony Tallis 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, the educated son of the family's housekeeper, carries a torch for Briony's headstrong older sister Cecilia. He hopes that Cecilia 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. She goes so far as to accuse Robbie of a crime he did not commit. Cecilia and Robbie declare their love for each other, but, ultimately, he is arrested. Briony bears false witness and the course of three lives is changed forever. As Briony grows older, she 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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Title Atonement / Working Title Films ; Relativity Media ; Studio Canal ; produced by Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner, Paul Webster ; screenplay by Christopher Hampton ; directed by Joe Wright.
Publication Details [Australia?] : Universal Studios, c2008.
Description 1 videodisc (118 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Notes Based on the novel by Ian McEwan.
Originally released as a motion picture in 2007.
Special features include : deleted scenes ; making of ; director commentary ; novel to the screen.
Director, Joe Wright; producer, Tim Bevan; director of photography, Seamus McGarvey
In 1935, 13-year-old fledgling writer Briony Tallis 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, the educated son of the family's housekeeper, carries a torch for Briony's headstrong older sister Cecilia. He hopes that Cecilia 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. She goes so far as to accuse Robbie of a crime he did not commit. Cecilia and Robbie declare their love for each other, but, ultimately, he is arrested. Briony bears false witness and the course of three lives is changed forever. As Briony grows older, she 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.
Subject Atonement- Drama.
Sisters- Drama.
False testimony- Drama
Man-woman relationships- Drama.
World War, 1914-1918- Drama.
Feature films
England- Drama.
Added Author Bevan, Tim
Wright, Joe, 1972-
McAvoy, James, 1979-
Knightley, Keira, 1985-
Garai, Romola, 1982-
Ronan, Saoirse, 1994-
Redgrave, Vanessa, 1937-
McEwan, Ian
Hampton, Christopher, 1946-
Universal Studios Home Entertainment (Firm)
Scoop Holdings NSCO
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