The Sweet Hereafter

6.9

Canada

Drama

112 min

1997

Earl Pastko Mychael Danna Russell Banks Brooke Johnson Marc Donato Sarah Rosen Fruitman Bruce Greenwood David Hemblen Simon Baker Ian Holm Arsinée Khanjian Stephanie Morgenstern Maury Chaykin Alberta Watson Gabrielle Rose Tom McCamus Sarah Polley

A 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.