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The Sweet Hereafter

1997, Movie, 1h 52min

Winner of the Grand Prix at Cannes, Atom Egoyan’s masterful adaptation of a novel by Russell Banks traces the aftermath of a school bus accident in a small Canadian town that leaves fourteen children dead. When Mitchell Stephens (Ian Holm), a big-city lawyer, arrives to organize a class-action lawsuit, his presence stirs up tensions within the town. Garnering Academy Award nominations for Egoyan for both best director and adapted screenplay, THE SWEET HEREAFTER is a powerful, deeply empathetic exploration of what it means to go on living in the face of tragedy.

Country: Canada

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Reviews

Critic William Thomas

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An evocative parallel with The Pied Piper underlines a more complex set of emotions than the cinema is usually keen on depicting.

Read full review at Empire

Critic Marjorie Baumgarten

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I can think of no other movie that has dared to analyze grief and its aftermath with such naked honesty and precision, a film whose here and now so totally rebukes the notion of a sweet hereafter.

Read full review at The Austin Chronicle

Michael Thomsen

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Smuk canadisk film om sorgbearbejdelse i en lille by. Meget bevægende.

4 years ago

Ronny Svensson

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Om sorg och saknad och att försöka hitta tillbaka till en hygglig tillvaro efter att ett trauma drabbat en hel byggd. Fingertoppskänsligt och ömsint skildrat med svärta och ljus.

2 years ago

Frequently asked questions

What is The Sweet Hereafter about? Toggle content

In a small Canadian town, a tragic school bus accident kills 14 children. Out-of-town lawyer Mitchell Stephens, haunted by his own personal demons, convinces the grieving parents to file a class-action lawsuit against the town and bus company. As the case unfolds, Nicole Burnell, a 15-year-old survivor paralyzed from the waist down, becomes a key witness. But when Nicole unexpectedly accuses the bus driver of speeding in a pretrial deposition, the lawsuit is halted. Two years later, Stephens sees the bus driver working in a different city, raising questions about the truth and the path to healing.

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The Sweet Hereafter is currently unavailable to stream in undefined on the streaming services we have in our catalogue

What movies are similar to The Sweet Hereafter? Toggle content

Some movies that have similar genres and were produced around the same time as The Sweet Hereafter include The Shawshank Redemption, Erin Brockovich, Remember the Titans, Forrest Gump, American Beauty, Good Will Hunting.

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The Sweet Hereafter was released in theaters on July 16, 1998.