Atonement

Character: Robbie Turner
UK Release: 7th September 2007
USA Release: 4th January 2008

Synopsis: 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 (James McAvoy), the educated son of the family’s housekeeper, carries a torch for Briony’s headstrong older sister Cecilia (Keira 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.

Co-Stars;
Keira Knightley – Cecelia Tallis
Saoirse Ronan – Briony Tallis (aged 13yrs)
Romola Garai – Briony Tallis (aged 18yrs)
Vanessa Redgrave – Briony Tallis (elder)
Brenda Blethyn – Grace Turner

Quotes
[Robbie has just broken a vase belonging to Cecilia's family]
Cecilia Tallis: You idiot… You realize that’s probably the most valuable thing we own?
Robbie Turner: Not anymore it isn’t.

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Robbie Turner: …if all we have rests in a few moments in a library three and a half years ago, then I don’t know… I don’t…
Cecilia Tallis: Robbie… look at me. Look at me. Come back. Come back to me.