Oscar-nominated drama by Atom Egoyan about the aftermath of a tragedy. A small community in Canada is torn apart by grief when a school bus crashes and kills most of the town’s children. A slick city lawyer appears on the scene and wants the grieving parents to file a class action suit against those responsible, but the advocate harbours a terrible secret of his own. When a survivor accuses the driver of speeding, the lawyer’s plans are threatened. Starring Ian Holm and Sarah Polley., Atom Egoyan (Exotica) wrote and directed this Canadian film, an adaptation of the bestseller by Russell Banks (Continental Drift) about life in the small town of Sam Dent, British Columbia, where the crash of a packed schoolbus resulted in a tragic loss of young lives. The town struggles to come to terms with the children’s deaths. Big-city lawyer Mitchell Stephens (Ian Holm), driven by his own demons, arrives in Sam Dent to prepare a class-action lawsuit, and an angry atmosphere of bitterness, recriminations, and emotions surfaces among the townspeople, including young crash survivor Nicole Burnell (Sarah Polley), schoolbus driver Dolores Driscoll (Gabrielle Rose), Dolores’ wheelchair-bound husband (David Hemblen), a devastated father (Bruce Greenwood), and artist Wanda Otto (Arsinee Khanjian). Anger, accusations, doubts, and suspicions threaten to tear the community apart — until one teenager looks for a way to reunite the town. Banks saw the town itself as a character: “There’s no hero, just a community that embodies courage and volition, the moral values generally attributed to a leading character.” Shown at the 1997 Cannes Festival., A story set in a small British Columbia town whose residents are united by a tragic school-bus accident. Soon after the event a big city lawyer with hopes to convince the bereaved parents into taking out a lawsuit against the bus company, stirs up the anger of the townspeople. Awarded Best Foreign Film at the Independent Spirit Awards and with the Grand Prize of the Jury at the Cannes Film Festival 1997., Ian Holm stars in Atom Egoyan’s film as the big name lawyer who tries to persuade the parents of children killed in a school bus accident to sue and in doing so, learns much about himself. The film, about how people handle grief, anger and guilt, is never over-emotional and Egoyan’s assured direction is, given the subject matter, surprisingly warm., Acclaimed Canadian filmmaker Atom Egoyan’s tale of the impact of a fatal school-bus accident on a small town. The townspeople open their hearts and share their grief, only to discover that placing blame will not ease their pain. Based on the novel by Russell Banks. Ian Holm, Sarah Polley, Bruce Greenwood, Tom McCamus., Drama about the efforts of a lawyer to persuade a community of bereaved parents to sue over the deaths of their children. When the troubled but ambitious lawyer arrives in a small Canadian town in which a bus crash has claimed the lives of all but one of the children on board, he faces a variety of reactions to his attempts to assign blame and seek recompense for the grieving families., A Canadian town tries to cope with a bus accident that killed schoolchildren in this adaptation of Russell Banks’ novel., This film documents the effects of a tragic bus accident on the population of a small town.
Q&A :
Q: Who are the main cast members in “The Sweet Hereafter ” ?
A: The main cast includes Ian Holm,Sarah Polley,Bruce Greenwood,Tom McCamus,Arisnee Khanjian,Alberta Watson,Gabrielle Rose,Maury Chaykin,Brooke Johnson,Earl Pastko,David Hemblen,Stephanie Morgenstern,Caerthan Banks,Kirsten Kieferle,Sarah Rosen Fruitman,Marc Donato,Devon Finn,Fides Krucker,Magdalena Sokoloski,Simon Baker,James D. Watts,Allegra Denton,Peter Donaldson,Russell Banks,Tony Van Den Akker,Paul Sarossy,Sylvain Cournoyer,Susan Shipton,Phillip Barker,Atom Egoyan,Andras Hamori,Dawn Rivard,Ross Redfern,Sue Conley,Andy Malcolm,Peter Kelly,Beth Pasternak,Kathleen Climie,Steven Munro,Goro Koyama,David Webb,Keith Elliott,Daniel Pellerin,Patricia Cuccia,David Drainie Taylor,Daniel Pellerin,Peter Szkoda,Robert Lantos.
Q: When Did the “The Sweet Hereafter” Released?
A: The Movie “The Sweet Hereafter” originally aired on 1997-10-10 and released in the year of 1997.
Q: What Languages are available to watch “The Sweet Hereafter” ?
A: Is also available in eng language.
Q: Where to watch “The Sweet Hereafter” ?
A: “The Sweet Hereafter” is Avaiable on Netflix. as its Netflix Originals.
