The Sweet Hereafter
MovieTitle | The Sweet Hereafter |
User score | 6.9 |
Release date | Sep 25, 1997 |
Genre | Drama |
Director | Atom Egoyan |
Production country | Canada |
Production companies | Fine Line Features, Ego Film Arts, Alliance Films |
Budget | $5,000,000 |
Revenue | $7,951,247 |
Run time | 112 min. |
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.