Rating: R
Genre:
Drama
Release Date: 05/27/1998
SubTitles: English/French/Espanol
Dubbed: English/French
Sound: DD5.1
Run Time: 116 Minutes
Flags: Brief Nudity, Adult Situations, Not For Children, Sexual Situations
Distributor/Studio: New Line Home Video
Atom Egoyan's haunting adaptation of the
Russell Banks novel
The Sweet Hereafter was the Canadian filmmaker's most successful film to date, taking home a Special Grand Jury Prize at the
1997 Cannes Film Festival and scoring a pair of Academy Award nominations, including Best Director. Restructured to fit
Egoyan's signature mosaic narrative style, the story concerns the cultural aftershocks which tear apart a small British Columbia town in the wake of a school-bus accident which leaves a number of local children dead.
Ian Holm stars as
Mitchell Stephens, a big-city lawyer who arrives in the interest of uniting the survivors to initiate a lawsuit; his maneuvering only drives the community further apart, reopening old wounds and jeopardizing any hopes of emotional recovery. Like so many of
Egoyan's features,
The Sweet Hereafter is a serious and painfully honest exploration of family grief; no character is immune from the sense of utter devastation which grips the film, not even the attorney, whose interests are in part motivated by his own remorse over the fate of his daughter, an HIV-positive drug addict.
~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide
;)
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