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Atonement (2007)

★ 7.6 · 4,677 ratings on TMDB

Torn apart by betrayal. Separated by war. Bound by love.

Atonement poster★ 7.6

A young girl irrevocably changes the course of several lives when she accuses her older sister's lover of a crime he did not commit.

DirectorJoe Wright
CastAlfie Allen, Benedict Cumberbatch, Brenda Blethyn, Harriet Walter, James McAvoy, Juno Temple
GenresDrama, Romance
The emergence reading

Atonement keeps every mind human — it fights its subject at zero distance. The story fights on E8/E10 of the E0–E14 reality ladder.

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