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Atonement / 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.
LIBRA DVD 016 833
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- Format:
- Video
- Author/Creator:
- McEwan, Ian. Atonement, author.
- Series:
- Focus Features four-star collection
- Language:
- English
- French
- Spanish
- Subjects (All):
- McEwan, Ian--Film adaptations.
- McEwan, Ian.
- Atonement--Drama.
- Sisters--England--Drama.
- False testimony--England--Drama.
- Man-woman relationships--England--Drama.
- Man-woman relationships.
- False testimony.
- Sisters.
- Atonement.
- England--Drama.
- England.
- Genre:
- Drama.
- Historical films.
- War films.
- Romance films.
- Feature films.
- Motion pictures, Great Britain.
- Motion pictures, French.
- Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
- Film adaptations.
- Video recordings.
- Physical Description:
- 1 videodisc (123 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
- polychrome
- Edition:
- [Widescreen edition].
- Place of Publication:
- Universal City, Calif. : Universal Studios Home Entertainment, [2008]
- Language Note:
- English, dubbed French or dubbed Spanish, with optional English SDH, French or Spanish subtitles.
- SDH.
- System Details:
- DVD, NTSC ; Region 1 ; Dolby Digital 5.1 surround.
- digital
- optical
- surround
- Dolby digital 5.1
- NTSC
- video file
- DVD video
- region 1
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- Special features: Anamorphic widescreen version
- Deleted scenes
- Bringing the past to life: The making of Atonement
- From novel to screen: Adapting a classic
- Feature commentary with director Joe Wright
- Language: English Dolby digital 5.1 ; Spanish Dolby digital 5.1 ; French Dolby digital 5.1
- Subtitles: English SDH, Spanish, French.
- Participant:
- James McAvoy, Keira Knightley, Romola Garai, Saoirse Ronan, Vanessa Redgrave, Brenda Blethyn, Julia West, Harriet Walter.
- Credits:
- Director of photography, Seamus McGarvey ; editor, Paul Tothill ; music, Dario Marianelli ; costume designer, Jacqueline Durran ; production designer, Sarah Greenwood.
- Notes:
- 1.85.1 aspect ratio.
- Released as a motion picture in 2007.
- 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.
- Academy Awards, 2008: Best original score. Golden Globes, USA, 2008: Best Motion Picture, Drama ; Best Original Score, Motion Picture.
- OCLC:
- 191825450
- Publisher Number:
- 025193328526
- 2519332852
- 61033285 Universal Studios Home Entertainment
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