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The Sweet Hereafter (1997)

The Sweet Hereafter (1997)

Drama

There is no such thing as the simple truth.

Release Date: 1997, September 25
Directors: Atom Egoyan
Countries: Canada
Production: Ego Film Arts, Alliance Films
Cast: Simon Baker, Ian Holm, Gabrielle Rose, Bruce Greenwood, Brooke Johnson, Sarah Polley, Maury Chaykin, Tom McCamus, Arsinée Khanjian, Alberta Watson, Marc Donato, David Hemblen

Overview:

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.

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