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The Sweet Hereafter

Movie (1997)


A small Canadian town is torn apart by the appearance of an ambulance-chasing lawyer after a tragic accident involving a school bus killed many of the town's children. One key witness, however, eludes the troubled attorney: a gifted young woman confined by the tragedy to a wheelchair for the rest of her life. A morality play without the sermon from EXOTICA auteur Egoyan, based on the acclaimed ...

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Released: May 14th, 1997
Budget: $5,000,000.00
Revenue: $3,263,585.00

The Sweet Hereafter Main Cast

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Ian Holm
Ian Holm
plays Mitchell Stevens
Caerthan Banks
Caerthan Banks
plays Zoe Stevens
Sarah Polley
Sarah Polley
plays Nicole Burnell
Tom McCamus
Tom McCamus
plays Sam Burnell
Gabrielle Rose
Gabrielle Rose
plays Dolores Driscoll
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  • Atom Egoyan was inspired to do this movie by a novel his wife Arsinée Khanjian gave him as a Christmas gift.
  • Was inspired by the 1989 school bus crash in Alton, Texas.
  • Premiere voted this movie as one of "The 25 Most Dangerous Movies".
  • CAMEO(Russell Banks): the author of the novel the movie is based on makes a cameo as the doctor ("The mind is kind") in the hospital scene with Sarah Polley.
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