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The Sweet Hereafter (1996)
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In synopsis The Sweet Hereafter may sound like a devastatingly unpleasant downer, but don't be discouraged. The real subjects of this luminous picture (adapted by director Atom Egoyan from Russell Banks's novel) are hope and renewal--avoiding the cheap emotions suggested by those clichéd terms. Like other Egoyan films (Exotica, for one), it's an intriguing sort of mystery, a puzzle in which the big picture is not revealed until the very last piece is in place. A metropolitan attorney (Ian Holm) travels to a small British Columbian town where 14 children have been killed in a school bus accident to prepare a class-action...
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| The Sweet Hereafter Movie Review by Movie Addict (12/4/2008) |
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Atom Egoyan got Academy Awards nominations for directing and hid screenplay. How I missed that is a wonder, but the wonder is this film, which really is amazing.
To base a story involving real people in a small town o the Pied Piper was a stoke of genius, and Egoyan pulled it off in a flawless story of how a tragic...
(complete The Sweet Hereafter review by Movie Addict)
| The Sweet Hereafter Movie Review by Steven (11/28/2008) |
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"The Sweet Hereafter" tells the story of a small Candain town torn apart after a horrific school bus accident. Ian Holm plays a New York lawyer who gathers families to file a class action lawsuit against the school board and government while dealing with personal issues of his own.
The two other performances worth...
(complete The Sweet Hereafter review by Steven)
A gorgeous Canadian film adapted from the Russell Banks novel of the same name. This tells the story of a town torn apart by the tragedy of losing all their children, save one.
Sarah Polley is heart-breaking and brilliant as the one survivor. Her life before the bus crash is reassessed and she comes to terms with the...
(complete The Sweet Hereafter review by Jessica Film Junkie)
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