The Sweet Hereafter

November. 21,1997      R
Rating:
7.4
Trailer Synopsis Cast

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.

Ian Holm as  Mitchell Stephens
Sarah Polley as  Nicole Burnell
Tom McCamus as  Sam Burnell
Gabrielle Rose as  Dolores Driscoll
Alberta Watson as  Risa Walker
Maury Chaykin as  Wendell Walker
Stephanie Morgenstern as  Allison
Arsinée Khanjian as  Wanda Otto
Earl Pastko as  Hartley Otto
Simon Baker as  Bear

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