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Canada10 Essential Canadian FilmsStop 4 of 10
The Sweet Hereafter
After a school-bus crash kills many of the children in a small mountain town, a big-city lawyer arrives to organize a class-action suit, unearthing the community's grief and its secrets. Atom Egoyan's mournful, elliptical drama.
Why it’s here
A major English Canadian drama about grief, law, and small-town fracture.
- Runtime
- 112 min
- Genre
- Drama
- Mood
- thoughtful · dark · uplifting
- Entry
- some context
- Best for
- character-driven drama