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In synopsis The Sweet Hereafter may sound like a devastatingly unpleasant downer, but don't be discouraged. The real subjects of this luminous picture (adapted by director Atom Egoyan from Russell Banks's novel) are hope and renewal--avoiding the cheap emotions suggested by those clichéd terms. Like other Egoyan films (Exotica, for one), it's an intriguing sort of mystery, a puzzle in which the big picture is not revealed until the very last piece is in place. A metropolitan attorney (Ian Holm) travels to a small British Columbian town where 14 children have been killed in a school bus accident to prepare a class-action suit. With sensitivity and empathy, he approaches relatives with promises that the suit will give focus and closure to their grief. And as he investigates the circumstances of the accident, he not only uncovers a few local secrets, but dredges up some painful pieces of his own past. Slowly, deeper mysteries are revealed--eternal mysteries at the very heart of human nature: Who is to blame for a tragedy like this? And why do people feel such a need to assign blame? Is that how they give meaning to otherwise inconceivable events? How does one reassemble a shattered life? The Sweet Hereafter is too honest to offer bromides, but it shows how a few people struggle, as best they can, to answer these questions for themselves. --Jim Emerson
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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. 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; but his maneuvering
only drives the community further apart.
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. 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; but his maneuvering
only drives the community further apart.
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