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Dominican Rep. The Sweet Hereafter
4,863
Drama
A lawyer, pursued by the demons of losing a daughter to drugs, comes to a Canadian town where 20 children have died in a school bus accident. He wants the parents to sue, to determine who was at fault, and to focus their anger on making those at fault pay. Told partly in flashbacks to the days leading up to the accident, we also follow the attorney from family to family, coaxing them to join the suit. One young teen survives, crippled. ... [+]
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"A very special masterpiece with arguably the greatest actor working in film today." | ||
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"This is one of the best films of the year, an unflinching lament for the human condition (...) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 4)" | ||
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"I can think of no other movie that has dared to analyze grief and its aftermath with such naked honesty and precision" | ||
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"Masterpiece is the right word for The Sweet Hereafter. It is extraordinary: a poem of familial pain, a song of broken embraces." | ||
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"Leaves you shaken and ecstatic at the same time, transported by the vision of a major film artist" | ||
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"Solemn, subtly structured, beautifully acted and ultimately hypnotic" | ||
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"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." | ||
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Egoyan looks at the essence of guilt and the complexity of human relationships in all their rich variety. |
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