Nominated for two Academy awards and starring acclaimed actor Ian Holm, 'The Sweet Hereafter' is a truly powerful film, as deeply moving as it is gripping.
After a terrible school bus accident in a small town, a big-city lawyer arrives, promising to win compensation for the townspeople. But this is no open and shut case. As he investigates the crash and its effects on the community, he begins to realise there is more than one mystery and more than one tragedy hidden behind the small town's grief. 'The Sweet Hereafter' is brave, poignant and powerfully affecting cinema adapted from Russell Banks' best-selling novel by director Atom Egoyan ('Exotica').