The Sweet Hereafter

About The Sweet Hereafter

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.

The Sweet Hereafter (1997) is a drama film directed by Atom Egoyan. At 112 minutes long, it arrived in September 1997.

Ian Holm appears as Mitchell Stephens, Sarah Polley as Nicole Burnell, Tom McCamus as Sam Burnell, and Gabrielle Rose as Dolores Driscoll. Written by Atom Egoyan. It was produced by Alliance Films and Ego Film Arts. It is adapted from a novel.

Members will find car accident, village, tragedy, and canada in it. American members can watch it on Criterion Channel.

The Great Escape, October Sky, and The Mauritanian make useful companions to The Sweet Hereafter, all filed under small town and lawyer. It scores 6.9 out of 10 from 444 TMDB voters and it carries a R rating.