"Atonement" Official Trailer

Joe Wright, the BAFTA Award-winning director of "Pride & Prejudice," has reunited with his filmmaking team and his Academy Award-nominated actress, Keira Knightley, for another classic British romance, starring James McAvoy (BAFTA Award nominee for "The Last King of Scotland") opposite Ms. Knightley. Christopher Hampton (Academy Award winner for "Dangerous Liaisons") has written the screenplay adaptation of Ian McEwan's best-selling 2002 novel Atonement. Shot on location in the U.K., the film's story spans several decades. In 1935, 13-year-old fledgling writer Briony Tallis (Saoirse Ronan) 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 (Mr. McAvoy), the educated son of the family's housekeeper, carries a torch for Briony's headstrong older sister Cecilia (Ms. Knightley). Cecilia, he hopes, 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, going so far as accusing Robbie of a crime he did not commit. Cecilia and Robbie declare their love for each other, but he is arrested -- and with Briony bearing false witness, the course of three lives is changed forever. Briony 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.

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[spoilt02]

I would totally marry James McAvoy!!

[ASacredSpirit]

World War II seemed like such an awful time!!!!! I hope nothing like that ever happens again.

[dawnlott3]

This was such a sad movie

[SpenseryMae]

Something very similar is happening now. Just not where you live.

[LeanLowPwnz]

If you have read history , you will see that it is impossible not to happen something like this again ...

[TheDanishEmoFreak From Denmark]

There would be no world left, with all the new technology in the world.

[rainbowmnm]

I just finished reading the book and saw there was a movie as well, I have to say, it was one of the best books I've ever read and love the complexity of it!

[Kmichelle123able]

you are going to have to fight a lot of people for that!

[barbaro267]

the end was SO tragic :*(

[Annie Garcia]

Wait can I marry James McAvoy please??

[PakalUnited]

Damn it "240p" we met again!!

[charias72]

Spoiler alert?