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The Sweet Hereafter (1997)


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Based on the novel by Russell Banks, The Sweet Hereafter recounts the events leading up to and following a school bus accident that kills fourteen children. The story follows the families whose lives irrevocably change, and a big-city lawyer (Ian Holm) who shows up in the community hoping to sign people up for a class-action lawsuit. In the ensuing atmosphere of suspicion, guilt, and doubt, a surviving teenager (Sarah Polley) manages to regain her strength and dignity, and by telling a lie, reunites the community, and drives the lawyer from the town. Atom Egoyan’s excellent adaptation of Banks’s complex tale of guilt and redemption is told in a Rashomon-like fashion. The cast is seamlessly perfect, and Holm’s central performance as the deeply flawed lawyer with a smouldering intelligence holds the screen with a magnetic core.

The Sweet Hereafter won the Grand Jury Prize at Cannes and Best Picture at the 1998 Genie Awards.


112 minutes - Drama
Release date: October 10, 1997
Canadian distributor: Alliance Communications


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MAIN CAST:

Ian Home
Caerthan Banks
Sarah Polley
Tom McCamus
Bruce Greenwood
Alberta Watson
Maury Chaykin
Gabrielle Rose
David Hemblen
Stephanie Morgenstern
Arsinée Khanjian
Kirsten Kieferle
Brooke Johnson
Marc Donato
Simon Baker
Peter Donaldson



Atom Egoyan
Camelia Frieberg
Atom Egoyan
Atom Egoyan
Paul Sarossy
Susan Shipton
Mychael Danna




Mitchell Stephens
Zoe Stephens
Nicole Burnell
Sam Burnell
Billy Ansell
Risa Walker
Wendall Walker
Dolores Driscoll
Abbott Driscoll
Allison
Wanda Otto
Flight attendant
Mary
Mason
Bear
Schwartz




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