The Sweet Hereafter (1997)
September 25, 1997
Drama
1h 52m
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There is no such thing as the simple truth.
A small mountain community in Canada is devastated when a school bus accident leaves more than a dozen of its children dead. A big-city lawyer arrives to help the survivors' and victims' families prepare a class-action suit, but his efforts only seem to push the townspeople further apart. At the same time, one teenage survivor of the accident has to reckon with the loss of innocence brought about by a different kind of damage.
Cast & Crew
- Director
- Atom Egoyan
- Mitchell Stephens Ian Holm
- Nicole Burnell Sarah Polley
- Sam Burnell Tom McCamus
- Dolores Driscoll Gabrielle Rose
- Risa Walker Alberta Watson
- Wendell Walker Maury Chaykin
- Allison Stephanie Morgenstern
- Wanda Otto Arsinée Khanjian
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Keywords
- small town
- canada
- based on novel or book
- suffering
- village
- paralysis
- based on true story
- tragedy
- lawyer
- car accident
- school bus
- british columbia