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: New Line Home Video
: Drama, Independent, Disaster Action, Canada
: 116 min.
: English, French
: English, Spanish, French
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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. 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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| Great Movie! Needs a Part II!
by heathercottingham
September 15, 2003 - 4:49 PM PDT
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3 out of 5 members found this review helpful
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I wasn't sure what to expect when I rented this movie. I was amazed at the expertly crafted story, the all flawed but real characters and the otherwise idyllic setting. The story slowly unfolds and you learn the awful truth about how the people in this small town handle tragedy. Not all questions are answered, leaving you with many questions...leaving you wanting more.
As a side note: this has some of the best dramatic male acting I've seen in years. |
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