ADORATION

Theatrical Feature released 2008

ADORATION speaks to our connections – with each other, with our family history, with technology and with the modern world.

Sabine (ARSINÉE 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 reimagines that the news item is his own family’s story, with the terrorist standing in for his father. Years ago, Simon’s father (NOAM JENKINS) crashed the family car, killing both himself and his wife (RACHEL BLANCHARD), making Simon an orphan. Simon has always feared that the accident was intentional.

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 reveals her true identity. The truth about Simon’s family emerges. The mystery is solved and a new family is formed.

Director: Atom Egoyan

Writer: Atom Egoyan

Cast: Arsinée Khanjian, Scott Speedman, Rachel Blanchard, Noam Jenkins with Devon Bostik and Kenneth Welsh

Producers: Simone Urdl, Jennifer Weiss, Atom Egoyan
Executive Producers: Robert Lantos, Michèle Pétin & Laurent Pétin
Associate Producer: Marcy Gerstein