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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

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Ian Holm
plays Mitchell Stevens

Caerthan Banks
plays Zoe Stevens

Sarah Polley
plays Nicole Burnell

Tom McCamus
plays Sam Burnell

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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