The Sweet Hereafter (1997) ( De beaux lendemains (The Sweet Here after) )

The Sweet Hereafter (1997) (Blu-Ray) (*)

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Alternate Title: De beaux lendemains (The Sweet Here after)
Screened, competed or awarded at:
Cannes Film Festival
Film Critics Circle of Australia Awards
Oscar Academy Awards
Toronto International Film Festival
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
English ( Dolby Digital 5.1 )
English ( Dolby Digital Stereo )
English ( Dolby DTS-HD Master Audio )
English ( Dolby Linear PCM )

Product Origin/Format:
United Kingdom ( Blu-Ray/Region B )

Running Time:
113 min + 27 min extras

Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen (2.35:1)

Special Features:
Interactive Menu
Scene Access
Short Film

Movie filmed in 1997 and produced in:
Canada ( USA, Canada )

Directed By:
Atom Egoyan

Written By:
Atom Egoyan
Russell Banks

Actors:
Ian Holm ..... Mitchell
Caerthan Banks ..... Zoe
Sarah Polley ..... Nicole
Tom McCamus ..... Sam
Gabrielle Rose ..... Dolores
Alberta Watson ..... Risa
Maury Chaykin ..... Wendell
Stephanie Morgenstern ..... Allison
Kirsten Kieferle ..... Stewardess
Arsinée Khanjian ..... Wanda
Earl Pastko ..... Hartley
Simon Baker ..... Bear
David Hemblen ..... Abbott
Bruce Greenwood ..... Billy
Sarah Rosen Fruitman ..... Jessica

Synopsis:

A lawyer, pursued by the demons of losing a daughter to drugs, comes to a Canadian town where 20 children have died in a school bus accident. He wants the parents to sue, to determine who was at fault, and to focus their anger on making those at fault pay. Told partly in flashbacks to the days leading up to the accident, we also follow the attorney from family to family, coaxing them to join the suit. One young teen survives, crippled. She has become the lame child left behind in "The Pied Piper of Hamlin," which she reads aloud to a child the night before the accident. Her testimony is pivotal, and her relationship with her own father leads to what she says.

On a snowy winter morning in a small isolated community nestled in the mountains, Dolores Driscoll is driving the school bus with her load of children like she has most school mornings for the past 15 years. Also not unusual for that day is that Billy Adsel is following the bus in his truck, waving to his twin children, Jessica and Mason, who always sit at the back of the bus and wave back to their father. What is different this morning though is that the bus hits an icy patch, careens over the side of the road and crashes through the ice into the lake below. Among those mourning the death of their children are Billy, the Walkers who lost their developmentally challenged son Sean, and the Ottos who lost their adopted aboriginal son Bear. The faces of the living from that accident are aspiring songstress Nicole Burnell the accident which resulted in her being confined to a wheelchair, and Dolores herself. Descending onto the town is big city ambulance chasing lawyer Mitchell Stevens, who wants to represent all the affected families, including the Driscolls, in a class action lawsuit for damages against the companies and organizations with the deepest pockets. Some families accept Stevens' help as a way to cope with their grief. Others see the possibility of a financial windfall. And others, such as Billy, don't want anything to do with the lawsuit. But Stevens brings with him his own grief over a child, that being the loss of a caring relationship with his drug addicted daughter, Zoe. Life in the town wasn't perfect before that day, but is forever altered with this incident.

In a complex narrative mosaic, Egoyan spins a breathtaking web of interconnected stories about the lives of the inhabitants of a small town in British Columbia following a tragic road accident. Atom Egoyan's most successful film to date, THE SWEET HEREAFTER garnered a staggering 42 international festival awards - including the 1997 Cannes Grand Jury Prize - and was graced with two Oscar nominations (Best Director, Best Adapted Screenplay).

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