1997 · drama
The Sweet Hereafter
Directed by Atom Egoyan1h 52m1997
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.
Our read: The Sweet Hereafter (1997) reads as a heavy, measured, grounded drama entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook, with a strong directorial signature.
Heavy, measured, measured drama, grounded in texture. Nihilistic, mid-stakes, cold.
- heavy
- measured
- intense
- bleak
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