...Egoyan looks at the essence of guilt and the complexity of human relationships in all their rich variety.
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04/17/01
The Sweet Hereafter (1997)
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Reviews Counted:52
Fresh:52
Rotten:0
Average Rating:8.8/10
Consensus: Director Atom Egoyan examines tragedy and its aftermath with intelligence and empathy.
Runtime: 1 hr 56 mins
Genre: Dramas
Synopsis: 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,... [More]
Starring: Ian Holm, Sarah Polley, Maury Chaykin, Peter Donaldson
Director: Atom Egoyan
Reviews for The Sweet Hereafter
Top CriticIt's a tactfully acted film, beautifully shot in snowy widescreen, subtly scripted and directed with a rare touch.
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02/09/06
Top CriticHolm is brilliant as the detached outsider with a cold and calculated agenda, and Polley is mesmerizing as one of the surviving school children.
01/01/00
Una obra exquisita.
08/31/01
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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.
02/14/01
Top CriticEgoyan has also made his most emotionally acessible film to date without losing that rigorous intellectualism that makes his work such a rewarding challenge for persistent viewers.
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Complex in construction, provocative in some characterizations, The Sweet Hereafter is also raised in stature by an exceptional ensemble cast.
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Egoyan jumps backward and forward in the narrative with a clever deliberacy that reveals bits and pieces of literal and metaphorical relationships all in their own time.
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The Sweet Hereafter is a riveting film
01/01/00
a film that has brains, heart and a soul
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Flawlessly made.
01/01/00
Molds the past, present, and future into a tapestry of the cyclical nature of human suffering.
10/24/04
A beautiful elegy about family and community, death and healing...
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Explores the ways in which a tragedy enhances rather than diminishes a town's sense of community.
03/01/02
Despite the unhappiness of so many in the community even before the accident, The Sweet Hereafter shows graphically and yet in an understated, lyric tone, the ways in which the disaster has permanently changed the face of the backwater burg.
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The movie has an impact that extends far beyond the walls of a movie theater - a quality shared by a distressingly few of today's releases.
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Latest News for The Sweet Hereafter
September 07, 2005:
Trailer Bulletin: Where the Truth Lies
From Atom Egoyan, director of "Exotica," "The Sweet Hereafter," and "Ararat," comes Kevin Bacon, Colin Firth, and Alison Lohman in the already... More...
August 22, 2005:
Egoyan's "Truth" May Lie with an NC-17
ThinkFilm, distributor of the new Atom Egoyan film "Where the Truth Lies," plans to appeal what they believe will be an NC-17 rating from the MPAA, says The Hollywood... More...
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