"Atonement" Official Trailer (26) 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.
Extended ATONEMENT trailer (112) This is the extended trailer for the
upcoming film ATONEMENT. Starring Keira
Knightley, James McAvoy, and Romola Garai.
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