Adoration

Director : Atom Egoyan
Writers : Atom Egoyan
Release Date: 22 May 2008 (Cannes Film Festival), 8 May 2009 (USA) (limited)

Cast : Arsinee Khanjian, Scott Speedman, Rachel Blanchard, Devon Bostick

"Adoration" speaks to our connections -- with each other, with our family history, with technology and with the modern world.

Sabine (Arsinee Khanjian), 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 (Devon Bostick), who lives with his uncle (Scott Speedman). In the course of translating, Simon re-imagines that the news item is his own family's story, with the terrorist standing in for his father. Simon reads his version to the class and then takes it to the Internet. In essence, he has created a false identity which allows him to probe his family secret. As Simon uses his new persona to journey deeper into his past, the public reaction is swift and strong. Then an exotic woman revels her true identity and the truth about Simon's family emerges.

Adoration Trailer