The Sweet Hereafter

Plot

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.

Cast

Ian Holm

Mitchell Stephens

Sarah Polley

Nicole Burnell

Tom McCamus

Sam Burnell

Gabrielle Rose

Dolores Driscoll

Alberta Watson

Risa Walker

Caerthan Banks

Zoe Stephens

Maury Chaykin

Wendell Walker

Stephanie Morgenstern

Allison

Bruce Greenwood

Billy Ansel

Arsinée Khanjian

Wanda Otto

Earl Pastko

Hartley Otto

Simon Baker

Bear

Kirsten Kieferle

Stewardess

David Hemblen

Abbott Driscoll

Sarah Rosen Fruitman

Jessica Ansel