Atonement
By: Focus Features presents in association with Studiocanal  and Relativity Media a Working Title production ; produced by Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner, Paul Webster ; screenplay by Christopher Hampton ; directed by Joe Wright.
Contributors: Bevan, Tim.; Fellner, Eric.; Webster, Paul.; Hampton, Christopher, 1946-; Wright, Joe, 1972-; Ronan, Saoirse, 1994-; Blethyn, Brenda, 1946-; Redgrave, Vanessa, 1937-; McAvoy, James, 1979-; Walter, Harriet.; Knightley, Keira, 1985-; Garai, Romola, 1982-; Marianelli, Dario.; McEwan, Ian.; Focus Features.; Working Title Films.; Relativity Media.; Studio Canal.; Universal Studios Home Entertainment (Firm)
Series: Focus Features four-star collection
Publisher: Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Place of publication: Universal City, Calif
Format: Videorecording (DVD)
Number of pages: 123
Subjects: Atonement -- Drama.; Sisters -- England -- Drama.; False testimony -- England -- Drama.; Man-woman relationships -- England -- Drama.; Feature films.; Fiction films.; Melodrama.; War films.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; DVD-Video discs.; England -- Drama.
Genres: Drama.
Work titles: Atonement (Motion picture : 2007)
Description: In 1935, thirteen-year-old fledgling writer Briony Tallis 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, the educated son of the family's housekeeper, carries a torch for Briony's headstrong older sister Cecilia. He hopes that Cecilia 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. She goes so far as to accuse Robbie of a crime he did not commit. Cecilia and Robbie declare their love for each other, but, ultimately, he is arrested. Briony bears false witness and the course of three lives is changed forever. As Briony grow older, she 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.
Notes: Based on the novel by Ian McEwan.

Special features: deleted scenes with commentary from director Joe Wright; bringing the past to life: the making of Atonement; from novel to screen: adapting a classic; feature commentary with director Joe Wright.

Director of photography, Seamus McGarvey ; editor, Paul Tothill ; music, Dario Marianelli ; costume designer, Jacqueline Durran ; production designer, Sarah Greenwood.

James McAvoy, Keira Knightley, Romola Garai, Saoirse Ronan, Vanessa Redgrave, Brenda Blethyn, Julia West, Harriet Walter.

MPAA rating: R; for disturbing war images, language and some sexuality.

DVD ; Region 1 ; full screen (1.33:1) presentation ; Dolby Digital 5.1 surround.

English, dubbed French or dubbed Spanish, with French or Spanish subtitles.

Closed-captioned.

Golden Globes, USA, 2008: Golden Globe - Best Motion Picture - Drama ; Best Original Score - Motion Picture (Dario Marianelli)