The Sweet Hereafter Director: Atom Egoyan Cast: Ian Holm, Sarah Polley, Bruce Greenwood, Gabrielle Rose
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- DVD Release Date: 05/27/1998
- Original Release: 1997
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- Sales Rank: 12,666
Scenes
Features
Widescreen version; Audio commentary by writer/director Atorn Egoyan and novelist Russell Banks; "Before and After The Sweet Hereafter" discussion with Russell Banks and Atom Egoyan; Q & A interviews with members of the cast; "The Charlie Rose Show" interview with Atom Egoyan; "The Pied Piper of Hamelin" by Robert Browning and illustrated by Kate Greenaway; Isolated score by composer Mychael Danna; U.S. and Canadian theatrical trailers; Biographies and filmographies
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Scene Selections
0. Scene Selections
1. Head Credits [3:34]
2. Fathers And Daughters [4:02]
3. Car Wash To Schoolbus [3:19]
4. The Walkers [7:08]
5. Mitchell And Allison [1:45]
6. The Ottos [3:54]
7. Billy [3:29]
8. Grief [13:04]
9. Babysitting [8:15]
10. The Pied Piper [4:02]
11. That Morning [3:45]
12. The Spider Story [5:22]
13. Memories [4:10]
14. The Mind Is Kind [7:37]
15. Billy And Mitchell [7:21]
16. Dolores' Deposition [5:04]
17. Billy's Visit [5:14]
18. Sam And Nicole [:02]
19. Testament [4:25]
20. The Sweet Hereafter [8:32]
21. End Credits [3:40]
Editorial Reviews
Atom Egoyan's haunting adaptation of the Russell Banks novel The Sweet Hereafter was the Canadian filmmaker's most successful film to date, taking home a Special Grand Jury Prize at the 1997 Cannes Film Festival and scoring a pair of Academy Award nominations, including Best Director. Restructured to fit Egoyan's signature mosaic narrative style, the story concerns the cultural aftershocks which tear apart a small British Columbia town in the wake of a school-bus accident which leaves a number of local children dead. Ian Holm stars as Mitchell Stephens, a big-city lawyer who arrives in the interest of uniting the survivors to initiate a lawsuit; his maneuvering only drives the community further apart, reopening old wounds and jeopardizing any hopes of emotional recovery. Like so many of Egoyan's features, The Sweet Hereafter is a serious and painfully honest exploration of family grief; no character is immune from the sense of utter devastation which grips the film, not even the attorney, whose interests are in part motivated by his own remorse over the fate of his daughter, an HIV-positive drug addict. Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide
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