The Sweet Hereafter

• 6.9 Drama
• 1997-09-25
• 112 minutes mins

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.

Starring:

Ian Holm (Mitchell Stephens) Sarah Polley (Nicole Burnell) Tom McCamus (Sam Burnell) Gabrielle Rose (Dolores Driscoll) Alberta Watson (Risa Walker) Caerthan Banks (Zoe Stephens) Maury Chaykin (Wendell Walker) Stephanie Morgenstern (Allison) Kirsten Kieferle (Stewardess) Arsinée Khanjian (Wanda Otto)

Director:

Atom Egoyan

Writer:

Atom Egoyan