Movie: Atonement (2007)

“When Briony Tallis, 13 years old and an aspiring writer, sees her older sister Cecilia and Robbie Turner at the fountain in front of the family estate she misinterprets what is happening thus setting into motion a series of misunderstandings and a childish pique that will have lasting repercussions for all of them. Robbie is the son of a family servant toward whom the family has always been kind. They paid for his time at Cambridge and now he plans on going to medical school. After the fountain incident, Briony reads a letter intended for Cecilia and concludes that Robbie is a deviant. When her cousin Lola is raped, she tells the police that it was Robbie she saw committing the deed when in fact it was a visitor to the estate. Written by garykmcd”

  • Director: Joe Wright
  • Release Date: 4 January 2008 (USA)
  • Run Time: 123 min
  • Country: UK , France
  • Genre: Drama , Mystery , Romance , War
  • MPAA: Rated R for disturbing war images, language and some sexuality.

Tagline: You can only imagine the truth.

Trivia: Joe Wright had wanted Keira Knightley to play the role of Briony in her late teens, but Knightley immediately liked the character of Cecilia, and also wanted to get away from playing girls on the brink of womanhood and play a mature character for once.

Goofs: Anachronisms: In the movie, a recording of Jussi Bjorling and Victoria de Los Angeles is heard in the movie. We see a record being put on a phonograph. The recording is from what some consider the greatest operatic recording ever but it was actually recorded in 1956. Twenty years later from the time in the movie.

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