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Quick Info

Rating

6.9/10

Release1997

Runtime1h 52m

StatusReleased

Budget$5,000,000

Revenue$7,951,247

Production

Ego Film Arts

Alliance Films

Movie

The Sweet Hereafter

1997

1h 52m

6.9

Drama

Synopsis

A small mountain community in Canada is devastated when a school bus accident leaves more than a dozen of its children dead. A big-city lawyer arrives to help the survivors' and victims' families prepare a class-action suit, but his efforts only seem to push the townspeople further apart. At the same time, one teenage survivor of the accident has to reckon with the loss of innocence brought about by a different kind of damage.

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