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The Sweet Hereafter is a 1997 Canadian drama film written and directed by Atom Egoyan, adapted from the 1991 novel by Russell Banks. It tells the story of a school bus accident in a small town that kills 14 children.
Nov 21, 1997 · The Sweet Hereafter: Directed by Atom Egoyan. With Ian Holm, Caerthan Banks, Sarah Polley, Tom McCamus. A bus crash in a small town brings a lawyer to defend the families, but he discovers everything isn't what it seems.
Dec 23, 1997 · It is one of the strongest images in Atom Egoyan's “The Sweet Hereafter,” which takes place in a small Canadian town, locked in by snow and buried in grief after 14 children are killed in a school bus accident. To this town comes a quiet man, a lawyer who wants to represent the residents in a class action suit.
The Sweet Hereafter is a 1991 novel by American author Russell Banks. It is set in a small town in the aftermath of a deadly school bus accident that has killed most of the town's children. The novel was adapted into an award-winning 1997 film of the same name by Canadian director Atom Egoyan.
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 (Ian Holm)...
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A small community is torn apart by a tragic accident which kills most of the town's children. A lawyer visits the victims' parents in order to profit from the tragedy by stirring up their anger and launching a class action suit against anyone they can blame.
Based on the 1991 novel by Russell Banks, The Sweet Hereafter recounts the fictional events leading up to and following a school bus accident that kills 14 children in a small town in the British Columbia interior.
Dec 8, 2022 · The original trailer for Atom Egoyan's masterpiece "The Sweet Hereafter", reconstructed in 1080p HD for The Badlands Collective's 25th anniversary screening at ICA London.
Nov 21, 1997 · 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.
Nov 21, 1997 · Canadian writer-director Atom Egoyan's most ambitious work to date, The Sweet Hereafter is a rich, complex meditation on the impact of a terrible tragedy on a small town.
