An unbridled passion compels a young girl to commit a devastating act of betrayal in this adaptation of Ian McEwan’s best-selling 2002 novel. On the warmest day of the year in l935, a British country estate takes on an unsettling hothouse atmosphere, and stokes the vivid imagination of Briony, fiercely jealous of her lovely and headstrong older sister Cecelia (played by Keira Knightley). Robbie Turner, the educated son of the family’s housekeeper, carries a torch for Cecilia and all it will take is one spark for this relationship to combust. When it does, Briony is compelled to interfere and bear false witness to a crime that shatters the course of three lives. Through a terrible and courageous act of imagination, she forges a path to atonement. 2007; 130 min.
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