A little dream like movie about a father who is struggling with loosing his daughter to her addiction with drugs. He sets out to be the lawyer for a bus accident in a rural town that has taken the lives of 20 children. Though the movie won a lot of awards in Canada, it failed to get my attention, as it bogged out many times without letting the viewer get involved. For me, it seemed like it was all a dream.Mitchell Stephens (Ian Holm) moves to a small northern village of British Columbia, Canada after hearing about a tragic bus accident that took the lives of 20 children. Smelling money to be made, he convinces the surviving families to unite together and initiate a lawsuit. Mitchell is still coming to terms with his own tragedy of his daughter's drugs addiction eventually causing her death.
Many of the towns people would like to just forget the whole incident, while others are drawn to the cheer leading of Mitchell into getting what's due them. But in the end, the town has mixed emotions and is torn apart even farther by the turn of events in the case.
1997 - Sweet Hereafter - Toronto Film Critics Association - Best Canadian Film.
Alliance Atlantis PicturesDirector: Atom Egoyan
Writer: Atom Egoyan
Producers: Atom Egoyan, Camelia Frieberg
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