"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!!

[SukMyJohn]

god dammit i got to stop reading the comments every time i read a couple to see if its worth watching and everytime some says the whole story

[PakalUnited]

Damn it "240p" we met again!!

[charias72]

@Vampires22 Spoiler alert?

[LamentingHarlot]

@Vampires22 : Briony w/ age comes to realize the devastation her ignorance & jealousy as a child inflicted on Cecilia & Robbie. Blaming herself; she left the family estate, became a nurse & denied herself romantic love. The duration of her life was regret, shame, & lonliness because she could not undo what was done. Briony is the one who suffered - w/ both Celcilia & Robbie dying five years after the incident, she had to carry on til old age w/ the outcome of her actions.

[icak9]

@Vampires22 you have got to be kidding me. the entire point of the story was that she felt guilty. she couldn't do anything, she was paralyzed by her guilt. I don't remember any contentedness on her part at all. At the end, she did everything she could. She wrote the truth and gave them an ending. But she still couldn't live her life without feeling the guilt at what she did. Only a complete, utter moron could could have missed the entire storyline and say "she does not blame herself"!!!

[ASacredSpirit]

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

[Pretentification]

@sauceysassy Yikes. Calm down. Its just a film. Lol.

[Pretentification]

@spiderlolo100 Yeah but then she wrote that book. Thus redeeming herself and giving the film a happy ending. Haha. But yeah. Everyone in this film was annoying. I would have liked it if everyone in it had died. Lol.

[spiderlolo100]

@Pretentification the ending made me want to go out and kill every single kid that is out there, it made me want to just reach over the screen and grab briony (that little bitch) and kill her, this movie's ending is on par with the endings of movies like "requiem for a dream" and "the wrestler" and "wolrd trade center" and "titanic (yeah i know both were real events but you get the idea)

[PoppaJerry22]

this is why kids give me the shits........

[sauceysassy]

@pretentification No. Not humorous. Not one bit. It made me want to bawl my eyes out and then shoot myself.