The Sweet Hereafter (1997)
A Film by Atom Egoyan
DVD9 | ISO+MDS | NTSC 16:9 | Cover | 01:52:14 | 7,21 Gb
Audio: #1 English, #2 French - AC3 5.1 @ 448 Kbps (each track)
Subtitles: English, French, Spanish
Genre: Drama
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….