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The Sweet Hereafter is a 1997 Canadian drama film written and directed by Atom Egoyan, who also produced the movie. The screenplay was adapted from a novel, and the cast includes Ian Holm, Sarah Polley, Bruce Greenwood, and Alberta Watson. The film explores themes of incest and dysfunctional families within a small town setting. Paul Sarossy served as the director of photography, with Susan Shipton editing and Mychael Danna composing the score.
Filmed in Toronto and British Columbia, the movie was released in 1997 and has a runtime of 112 minutes. It was distributed by Alliance Films and Netflix, with a budget of 5,000,000 and revenue of 7,951,247. The film received the Cannes Film Festival Grand Prix and the National Board of Review: Top Ten Films. It was also nominated for an Academy Award for Best Director and an Academy Award for Best Writing, Adapted Screenplay.
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6.9A 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.
Cast
- Ian Holm as Mitchell Stephens
- Sarah Polley as Nicole Burnell
- Tom McCamus as Sam Burnell
- Gabrielle Rose as Dolores Driscoll
- Alberta Watson as Risa Walker
- Caerthan Banks as Zoe Stephens
Themes
- small town
- canada
- based on novel or book
- suffering
- village
- paralysis
- based on true story
- tragedy
- lawyer
- car accident
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- film
- Genre
- drama film
- Country of origin
- Canada
- Original language
- English language
- Based on
- The Sweet Hereafter
- Main subject
- dysfunctional family
- Director
- Atom Egoyan
- Screenwriter
- Atom Egoyan
- Cast member
- Tom McCamus
- Composer
- Mychael Danna
- Producer
- Atom Egoyan
- Cinematographer
- Paul Sarossy
- Narrative location
- Canada
- Filming location
- British Columbia
- Duration
- 112
- FilmAffinity ID
- 680520
- Distribution format
- video on demand
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- publication date
- 1998-03-05
- film editor
- Susan Shipton
- title
- The Sweet Hereafter
- nominated for
- Academy Award for Best Writing, Adapted Screenplay
- distributed by
- Netflix
- film format
- 35 mm film
- review score
- 7.4/10
- after a work by
- Russell Banks
- capital cost
- 5000000
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