Atonement

 Tag Line: Joined by love. Separated by fear. Redeemed by hope.
 Role: Robbie Turner
 Starring: Keira Knightley, Saoirse Ronan, Juno Temple
 Production Status: Completed
 Released: 7th December 2007 (USA), 7th September 2007 (UK)
 Directed By: Joe Wright
 Writers: Ian McEwan (Novel) Christopher Hampton (Screenplay)
 Genre: Drama / Romance / War
 Official Site: Here

The film opens in England in 1935, on the hottest day of the year. In the looming shadow of World War II Briony Tallis and her family live a life of wealth and privilege in their enormous Victorian Gothic Mansion. As the family gathers for the weekend the combination of the oppressive heat and long suppressed emotions coming to the surface create an ominous sense of threat and danger. Briony, a fledgling writer, is a girl with a vivid Imagination. Through a series of catastrophic misunderstandings she accuses Robbie Turner, the housekeeper's son and lover of her sister Cecilia, of a crime he did not commit. This accusation destroys Robbie and Cecilia's new found love and dramatically alters the course of all their lives.

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Robbie Turner: [voiceover] Dearest Cecilia, the story can resume. The one I had been planning on that evening walk. I can become again the man who once crossed the surrey park at dusk, in my best suit, swaggering on the promise of life. The man who, with the clarity of passion, made love to you in the library. The story can resume. I will return. Find you, love you, marry you and live without shame.

Cecilia Tallis: You idiot... You realize that's probably the most valuable thing we own?
Robbie Turner: Not anymore it isn't.

Robbie Turner: I'm sorry, you weren't meant to see that. It was the wrong version.
Cecilia Tallis: What was in the right one?
Robbie Turner: It was more formal... Less...
Cecilia Tallis: Anatomical?

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• Official Site
• IMDB
• Wikipedia
• James Mcavoy


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