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Call Number: DVD00051

by Tim Bevan; Eric Fellner; Paul Webster; Christopher Hampton; Joe Wright; Saoirse Ronan; Brenda Blethyn; Vanessa Redgrave; Julia West; James McAvoy; Harriet Walter; Keira Knightley; Romola Garai; Dario Marianelli; Ian McEwan; Focus Features.; Working Title Films.; Relativity Media.; Studio Canal.; Universal Studios Home Entertainment (Firm);

Format: DVD

Language: English

Publisher: Universal City, Calif. : Universal Studios Home Entertainment, [2008]

Notes: Originally released in 2007 (123 mins.); edition includes deleted scenes, the making of Atonement featurette, adapting the book featurette and feature commentary with director Joe Wright; Based on the book by Ian McEwan; Nominated for seven 2008 Academy Awards;

Summary: In 1935, thirteen-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 grow 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.

OCLC #: 191825450