- Starring:
- Keira Knightley, James McAvoy, Romola Garai, Brenda Blethyn, Vanessa Redgrave, Benedict Cumberbatch
- Directed by:
- Joe Wright
- Certificate:
- 15
- Release date:
- 7th September 2007
- Runtime:
- 117 mins
- Official site:
- www.atonementthemovie.co.uk
- Tagline:
- Joined by love. Separated by fear. Redeemed by hope.
What the deep voice says:
"In the summer of 1935, thirteen-year-old Briony Tallis sees her older sister Cecilia (Knightley) 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 (McAvoy), a childhood friend.
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."
What we say:
"Starring costume drama regulars Kiera Knightley and James McAvoy, from the pen of best selling author Ian McEwan and directed by the makers of Pride & Prejudice all the pieces are in place for this to be a great war time drama."
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