The Sweet Hereafter

Name: The Sweet Hereafter
Genre: Drama
Released: 25 Sep 1997
Rating: 6.90
Cast: Ian Holm, Sarah Polley, Tom McCamus, Gabrielle Rose, Alberta Watson

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.

Year: 1997

Genre: Drama

Studio: Ego Film Arts, Alliance Films

Director: Atom Egoyan

Cast: Ian Holm, Sarah Polley, Tom McCamus, Gabrielle Rose, Alberta Watson, Caerthan Banks

Crew: Atom Egoyan (Screenplay), Paul Sarossy (Director of Photography), Atom Egoyan (Producer), Susan Shipton (Editor), Atom Egoyan (Director), Mychael Danna (Original Music Composer)

Runtime: 112 minutes

Release: Sep 25, 1997

IMDb: 6.90/10 by 399 users

Popularity: 1

Country: Canada

Language: English

Budget: 5,000,000

Revenue: 7,951,247

Keyword : small town, canada, based on novel or book, suffering, village, paralysis, based on true story, tragedy, lawyer, car accident, school bus, british columbia