Directed by:
Joe WrightScreenplay:
Christopher HamptonCinematography:
Seamus McGarveyComposer:
Dario MarianelliCast:
James McAvoy, Keira Knightley, Romola Garai, Saoirse Ronan, Vanessa Redgrave, Brenda Blethyn, Juno Temple, Benedict Cumberbatch, Patrick Kennedy (more)VOD (2)
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On the hottest day of the summer of 1935, thirteen-year-old Briony Tallis sees her older sister Cecilia (Keira 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 (James McAvoy), 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. (Universal Pictures UK)
(more)Cast
James McAvoy
UK
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Keira Knightley
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Romola Garai
Hong Kong
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Saoirse Ronan
USA
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Vanessa Redgrave
UK
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Brenda Blethyn
UK
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Atonement (2007)
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Juno Temple
UK
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Benedict Cumberbatch
UK
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Patrick Kennedy
UK
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Harriet Walter
UK
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Peter Wight
UK
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Daniel Mays
UK
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Atonement (2007)
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Nonso Anozie
UK
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Gina McKee
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Jérémie Renier
Belgium
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Michelle Duncan
UK
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Alfie Allen
UK
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Atonement (2007)
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Michel Vuillermoz
France
Best movies:
Cyrano de Bergerac (1990)
Atonement (2007)
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Lionel Abelanski
France
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Atonement (2007)
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Tobias Menzies
UK
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