The Sweet Hereafter
- Released on
- Runtime
- 112 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.
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.
Cast
- Ian Holm
- Sarah Polley
- Tom McCamus
- Gabrielle Rose
- Alberta Watson
- Caerthan Banks
- Maury Chaykin
- Stephanie Morgenstern
- Kirsten Kieferle
- Arsinée Khanjian
- Earl Pastko
- Simon Baker
- David Hemblen
- Bruce Greenwood
- Sarah Rosen Fruitman
- Marc Donato
- Devon Finn
- Fides Krucker
- Magdalena Sokolowski
- James D. Watts
- Brooke Johnson
- Allegra Denton
- Peter Donaldson
- Russell Banks
- Mychael Danna
Director
- Atom Egoyan
Producers
- Atom Egoyan
- Camelia Frieberg
Screenwriter
- Atom Egoyan
