
The Sweet Hereafter
Sep 25 1997
•2h 52m
•Drama
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.
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Ian Holm
Mitchell Stephens

Sarah Polley
Nicole Burnell

Tom McCamus
Sam Burnell

Gabrielle Rose
Dolores Driscoll
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