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Dominican Rep. The Sweet Hereafter
- Original title
- The Sweet Hereafter
- Year
- 1997
- Running time
- 110 min.
- Country
Canada- Director
- Screenwriter
- Atom Egoyan. Novel: Russell Banks
- Cast
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Ian Holm
Sarah Polley
Bruce Greenwood- Earl Pastko
Tom McCamus- Caerthan Banks
Gabrielle Rose
Alberta Watson
Maury Chaykin- Stephanie Morgenstern
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- Music
- Cinematography
- Producer
- Genre
- Drama | Courtroom Drama / Lawyers
- 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.
- Rankings Position
- Awards
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1997: Academy Awards: 2 Nominations: Best Director and Best Adapted Screenplay1997: Cannes Film Festival: Jury Prize, Ecumenical Jury Prize, FIPRESCI Award1997: Toronto Film Festival: Best Canadian Movie (ex aequo)1997: Valladolid Film Festival - Seminci: Golden Spike: Best Movie1997: National Board of Review (NBR): Best cast1997: Genie Awards: Best Canadian Feature
- Critics' reviews
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"A very special masterpiece with arguably the greatest actor working in film today."
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"I can think of no other movie that has dared to analyze grief and its aftermath with such naked honesty and precision"
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"Masterpiece is the right word for The Sweet Hereafter. It is extraordinary: a poem of familial pain, a song of broken embraces."
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"Leaves you shaken and ecstatic at the same time, transported by the vision of a major film artist"
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"Solemn, subtly structured, beautifully acted and ultimately hypnotic"
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"Atom Egoyan's most ambitious work to date, The Sweet Hereafter is a rich, complex meditation on the impact of a terrible tragedy on a small town."
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- Ranking Lists Position
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- 13 My Favorite Canadian Movies (26)
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