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  • 2009
  • R
  • Sony Pictures Classics
  • 1 h 41 m
  • 2009
  • R
  • Sony Pictures Classics
  • 1 h 41 m

Summary Sabine, a high school French teacher, gives her class a translation exercise based on a real news story about a terrorist who plants a bomb in the airline luggage of his pregnant girlfriend. The assignment has a profound effect on one student, Simon, who lives with his uncle. In the course of translating, Simon re-imagines that the new...

Directed By: Atom Egoyan

Written By: Atom Egoyan

  • 2009
  • R
  • Sony Pictures Classics
  • 1 h 41 m
  • 2009
  • R
  • Sony Pictures Classics
  • 1 h 41 m

Adoration

Metascore Generally Favorable Based on 20 Critic Reviews
64
User Score Generally Favorable Based on 7 User Ratings
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Summary Sabine, a high school French teacher, gives her class a translation exercise based on a real news story about a terrorist who plants a bomb in the airline luggage of his pregnant girlfriend. The assignment has a profound effect on one student, Simon, who lives with his uncle. In the course of translating, Simon re-imagines that the new...

Directed By: Atom Egoyan

Written By: Atom Egoyan

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Metascore
Generally Favorable Based on 20 Critic Reviews
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40% Mixed
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Generally Favorable Based on 20 Critic Reviews
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90
A profound and provocative exploration of cultural inheritance, communications technology and the roots and morality of terrorism, the Canadian filmmaker Atom Egoyan nimbly wades into an ideological minefield without detonating an explosion.
By Stephen Holden FULL REVIEW
80
Shot on beautifully utilized film but employing images vividly from the Internet and mobile phones, it's an examination of the power that false ideas may have on people's imagination and beliefs when they are repeated over and over.
By Ray Bennett FULL REVIEW
75
Though there are moments when the drama turns into intellectual debate, the film is also emotional, moving with a fluid, mounting tension and moments of anguish and strange, startling humour.
By Liam Lacey FULL REVIEW
63
Watching Adoration is like juggling three tennis balls, a porcupine, and a graduate thesis, but eventually it finds a unifying theme, that of tolerance melting away racial and intergenerational hatreds.
By Ty Burr FULL REVIEW
58
Once all the pieces of the story are assembled, the whole thing turns out to be not that big of a deal.
By Marc Mohan FULL REVIEW
50
Adoration, despite a family resemblance to some of his finest work ("The Sweet Hereafter," "Ararat"), is Egoyan at his worst. The movie is slow and airless, with a script so weak one wonders why Egoyan bothered to film it.
By Mick LaSalle FULL REVIEW
40
Despite strong turns, it feels little more than an Egoyan lecture on Serious Stuff; lots to talk about, little to enjoy.
By Alan Morrison FULL REVIEW

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Generally Favorable Based on 7 User Ratings
6.4
57% Positive
4 Ratings
29% Mixed
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14% Negative
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Generally Favorable Based on 7 User Ratings
6.4
57% Positive
4 Ratings
29% Mixed
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14% Negative
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Production Company Serendipity Point Films, ARP Sélection, Ego Film Arts, The Film Farm, Téléfilm Canada, The Movie Network (TMN), Super Ecran, Astral Media, Movie Central, Corus Entertainment, Ontario Media Development Corporation (OMDC), Canadian Film or Video Production Tax Credit (CPTC), Adoration Productions
Release Date May 8, 2009
Duration 1 h 41 m
Rating R
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Website http://www.sonyclassics.com/adoration/
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Awards

Cannes Film Festival
• 1 Win & 2 Nominations
Hamburg Film Festival
• 1 Win & 2 Nominations
Genie Awards
• 2 Nominations

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