Number: 52

IMDB Rating: 7.8/10 (148200 votes)

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Also known as:: Atonement

Country: UK, 123 minutes

Spoken Languages: English, French

Genre(s): Drama, War, Romance, Mystery

Director: Joe Wright

Cast: Saoirse Ronan (as Briony Tallis, aged 13), Brenda Blethyn (as Grace Turner), James McAvoy (as Robbie Turner), Harriet Walter (as Emily Tallis), Keira Knightley (as Cecilia Tallis), Juno Temple (as Lola Quincey), Alfie Allen (as Danny Hardman), Patrick Kennedy (as Leon Tallis), Benedict Cumberbatch (as Paul Marshall), Peter Wight (as Police Inspector)

Medium: Digital Copy

Plot Outline: When Briony Tallis, 13 years old and an aspiring writer, sees her older sister Cecilia and Robbie Turner at the fountain in front of the family estate she misinterprets what is happening thus setting into motion a series of misunderstandings and a childish pique that will have lasting repercussions for all of them. Robbie is the son of a family servant toward whom the family has always been kind. They paid for his time at Cambridge and now he plans on going to medical school. After the fountain incident, Briony reads a letter intended for Cecilia and concludes that Robbie is a deviant. When her cousin Lola is raped, she tells the police that it was Robbie she saw committing the deed.

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