The Sweet Hereafter 1997

There is no such thing as the simple truth.

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R
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.

Release Date 1997-09-25
Runtime 1h 52m
Directors Atom Egoyan, Paul Sarossy, Bruno Bryniarski, Cassandra Cronenberg, Andy Mikita, Tracey Poirier, Mary Sylwester, David Webb
Producers Camelia Frieberg, Atom Egoyan, Sandra Cunningham, Robert Lantos, András Hámori, David Webb, Persis Reynolds
Writers Atom Egoyan, Russell Banks, Allen Bell