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The Sweet Hereafter
The film tells of a man named Mitchell Stephens, a lawyer who decided to come to the city after a car accident. There seems to be a state of revenge for society. Unfortunately, this retaliation will probably turn to a different course because of the secrets. This lawyer is trying to protect his family.
30 March 1986, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
1953, Midland, Ontario, Canada
28 March 1940, Newton, Massachusetts, USA
1989
1954, Canada
October 24, 2004
Molds the past, present, and future into a tapestry of the cyclical nature of human suffering.
January 01, 2000
A beautiful elegy about family and community, death and healing...
November 06, 2002
A delicate and touching story.
November 16, 2015
A film that touches on the essence of love by throwing us into the abyss of loss, The Sweet Hereafter marks the apex of the English-Canadian film tradition as it navigates the empty space left in the wake of tragedy with a gentle, but unsentimental eye.
February 14, 2001
Canadian writer-director Atom Egoyan's most ambitious work to date, The Sweet Hereafter is a rich, complex meditation on the impact of a terrible tragedy on a small town.
August 03, 2012
In its unsparing depiction of the loneliness and despair that afflicts the tragedy-wracked town of Sam Dent, The Sweet Hereafter is one of the coldest movies ever made.
January 01, 2000
In a season of expertly adapted contemporary fiction (like "L.A. Confidential" and "The Ice Storm"), this fusion of Banks's and Egoyan's sensibilities stands as a particularly inspired mix.
March 08, 2009
Cuts to the bone and stays there long after its end credits have finished rolling.
January 01, 2000
The film searches for that place in the heart where we feel sadness and squeezes it persuasively.
January 29, 2005
...intelligent, stately paced film
March 17, 2017
Egoyan's most successful film to date.
February 14, 2001
Though this is Egoyan's first adaptation, The Sweet Hereafter could serve as a model for how to do it right.
