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Adoration

  • 20082008
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  • 1h 40m
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6.3/10
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Adoration (2008)
For his French-class assignment, a high school student weaves his family history in a news story involving terrorism, and goes on to invite an Internet audience in on the resulting controversy.
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For his French-class assignment, a high school student weaves his family history in a news story involving terrorism, and goes on to invite an Internet audience in on the resulting controver... Read allFor his French-class assignment, a high school student weaves his family history in a news story involving terrorism, and goes on to invite an Internet audience in on the resulting controversy.For his French-class assignment, a high school student weaves his family history in a news story involving terrorism, and goes on to invite an Internet audience in on the resulting controversy.
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    • Atom Egoyan
    • Atom Egoyan
  • Stars
    • Devon Bostick
    • Rachel Blanchard
    • Louca Tassone
    • Atom Egoyan
    • Atom Egoyan
  • Stars
    • Devon Bostick
    • Rachel Blanchard
    • Louca Tassone
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    • 45User reviews
    • 95Critic reviews
    • 64Metascore
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    Devon Bostick in Adoration (2008)
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    Devon Bostick
    Devon Bostick
    • Simon
    Rachel Blanchard
    Rachel Blanchard
    • Rachel
    Louca Tassone
    • Young Simon
    Kenneth Welsh
    Kenneth Welsh
    • Morris
    Yuval Daniel
    • Security Agent
    Scott Speedman
    Scott Speedman
    • Tom
    Jeremy Wright
    • Delivery Guy
    Arsinée Khanjian
    Arsinée Khanjian
    • Sabine
    Noam Jenkins
    Noam Jenkins
    • Sami
    Thomas Hauff
    Thomas Hauff
    • Nick
    Martin Roach
    Martin Roach
    • Car Owner
    Ieva Lucs
    • Berating Woman
    Katie Boland
    Katie Boland
    • Hannah
    Hailee Sisera
    Hailee Sisera
    • Jennifer
    Lia Bellefontaine
    • Student On-Line
    Jermaine Crooks
    • Student On-Line
    Hannah Fogel
    • Student On-Line
    Celeste Howard
    • Student On-Line
      • Atom Egoyan
      • Atom Egoyan
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    • Trivia
      Atom Egoyan embarked on a series of workshops and interviews with university students to better understand their attitudes towards communicating with each other via the internet and texting.
    • Goofs
      In the scene at the end of the film at his grandfather's empty lake house, Simon first unloaded the wooden Christmas figures from his duffel bag onto a pile of firewood on the end of the dock. He then went into his grandfather's workshop and sawed the scroll off of his mother's violin. With his phone, he took a picture of the severed scroll in his hand with the dock in the background, but the wooden Christmas figures now appear in the middle of the dock.
    • Quotes

      Morris: [first lines - into video camera] I remember looking out at the two of you. Her playing on the dock, you watching. I was thinking how lucky you were to have a mom like her, and how lucky she was to have a boy like you. That's what he stole from you, Simon. That's what I can never forgive.

    • Connections
      Featured in The Rotten Tomatoes Show: Wolverine/Ghosts of Girlfriends Past/Battle for Terra (2009)

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    7/10
    Connecting the dots
    When I saw The Sweet Hereafter years ago, I thought Atom Egoyan was one of the greatest directors alive, and the subsequent films haven't really shaken that belief. If Adoration is not up to the standard of his best work, it is still well worth seeing. The story is one of terrible loss and forgiveness, and the acting is superb. We are connecting the dots--from racist grandfather to despairing mother to an orphan teenager (played by the excellent Devon Bostick) with big issues around truth and responsibility. The boy's uncle has a lot of issues himself; we can see that being a tow-truck driver is gnawing at his soul (made me think of Repo Man). Scott Speedman as the uncle is really good, he's hiding behind a beard, giving curt responses to Arsinée Khanjian's questions.

    A problem: lots of use of internet chat rooms to flesh out the story; disembodied, undramatic characters for Simon to interact with (watch for the great Maury Chaykin to heat things up somewhat). Technology is not a launching pad for art, it's just information retrieval or anger management.
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    • Is "Adoration" based on a book?

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    • Release date
      • April 24, 2009 (Canada)
      • Canada
      • Official site (United States)
      • English
      • French
      • Hebrew
    • Also known as
      • Toronto, Ontario, Canada
    • Production companies
      • Serendipity Point Films
      • ARP Sélection
      • Ego Film Arts
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    • 1 hour 40 minutes
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