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Adoration

Year:

2009

Duration:

101 min | USA:100 min | France:100 min

Genres:

Drama

IMDB rate:

6.4

Director:

Atom Egoyan

Awards:

2 wins & 8 nominations

Details

Country: Canada

Release Date: 2009-04-15

Filming Locations: Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Earnings

Budget: $4,700,000

Opening Weekend: $39,358 (USA) (10 May 2009)

Gross: $293,614 (USA) (11 October 2009)

Cast

Actor

Character

Aaron Poole

Devon Bostick

Simon

Rachel Blanchard

Rachel

Louca Tassone

Young Simon

Kenneth Welsh

Morris

Yuval Daniel

Security Agent

Scott Speedman

Tom

Jeremy Wright

Delivery Guy

Arsinée Khanjian

Sabine

Noam Jenkins

Sami

Thomas Hauff

Nick

Martin Roach

Car Owner

Ieva Lucs

Berating Woman

Katie Boland

Hannah

Hailee Sisera

Jennifer

Lia Bellefontaine

Student On-Line

Jermaine Crooks

Student On-Line

Hannah Fogel

Student On-Line

Celeste Howard

Student On-Line

Jamie McMillan

Student On-Line

Yunus Mohamed

Student On-Line

Nariné Martiros-Gharakhanian

Student On-Line

Victor Nhan

Student On-Line

Tristan Parlette

Student On-Line

Lucas Paulino

Student On-Line

June Rogers

Student On-Line

Kevin Tung

Student On-Line

Jack Blum

Passenger & Professor On-Line

Maury Chaykin

Passenger & Professor On-Line

Sharon Corder

Passenger & Professor On-Line

Vera Frenkel

Passenger & Professor On-Libe

Marc Glassman

Passenger & Professor On-Line

Shel Goldstein

Passenger & Professor On-Line

Paul Soles

Passenger & Professor On-Line

Janice Stein

Passenger & Professor On-Line

Geraldine O'Rawe

Carole

Duane Murray

Parking Security

Dominic Cuzzocrea

Taxi Driver (as Domenic Cuzzocrea)

Tony Nardi

School Principal

Soo Garay

Granddaughter

Bathsheba Garnett

Holocaust Survivor

Michael Barry

Skinhead

Ron Bell

Bus Driver

Did you know?

Trivia

One of Atom Egoyan's intentions with the film was to explore absences in the human condition, in this case largely from the viewpoint of Simon who has grown up without his natural parents.

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The character of Tom was originally written as being older. Scott Speedman had read the script in Los Angeles and insisted on meeting with Atom Egoyan. When the director met Speedman, he immediately revised his preconceptions about Tom's age and made him younger.

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Ironically, for a movie about advancing technologies, Atom Egoyan deliberately shot _Adoration_ on 35mm film stock.

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Goofs

When Sabine arrives at the door, it is gently snowing and her black coat has some snow on it. Once she enters the house (a different set, her coat no longer has snow on it and the rate of snow, as seen through the window behind her, is at a much faster rate.

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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.

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When Sabine (the cab driver) and Tom stop for lunch, neither one the cars they are all in stop at the blinking red light at the intersection.

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Quotes

Daniel: What do you think, can we get a rain check for martyrdom?

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Simon: [class monologue] Innocence is a hard thing to describe, it's like a scent, a thing which some people carry. And from the moment they found the bomb, the security officials knew my mother had nothing to do with it.

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Simon: I think that this idea we get, that if you get to know someone, if you humanize them, it stops you from pulling the trigger or setting off the bomb or whatever, well that's just a myth we're taught, something we get from the movies. When the reality might be that's what actually inspires extreme action.

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Faq

Is "Adoration" based on a book?

No. Adoration is based on a screenplay by Canadian film-maker Atom Egoyan, who also directed the movie.

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