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Starring: Ian Holm, Maury Chaykin, Gabrielle Rose (View All)
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Starring: Ian Holm, Maury Chaykin, Gabrielle Rose
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. Like so many of Egoyan's features, The Sweet Hereafter is a serious and painfully honest exploration of family grief; no character is immune from the sense of utter devastation which grips the film, not even the attorney, whose interests are in part motivated by his own remorse over the fate of his daughter, an HIV-positive drug addict. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide
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US Release Date
11/21/97
MPAA Rating
Rated R
Running Time
110 mins.
Locations
- British Columbia, Canada
Language
- English
Box Office Total
$4,306,697
Awards
- Nominated for a Best Original Song award at the 1997 Genie Awards [Festival/Award] Awards.
- Winner of the Best Sound award at the 1997 Genie Awards [Festival/Award] Awards.
- Winner of the Best Sound Editing award at the 1997 Genie Awards [Festival/Award] Awards.
- Winner of the Best Director award at the 1997 Toronto Film Critics Association [Fest Awards.
- Nominated for a Best Supporting Actor award at the 1997 Genie Awards [Festival/Award] Awards.
- Winner of the Best Cinematography award at the 1997 Genie Awards [Festival/Award] Awards.
- Winner of the Best Ensemble Acting award at the 1997 National Board of Review [Festival/Awa Awards.
- Nominated for a Best Picture award at the 1997 National Board of Review [Festival/Awa Awards.
- Winner of the Best Orignal Score award at the 1997 Genie Awards [Festival/Award] Awards.
- Winner of the Best Director award at the 1997 Genie Awards [Festival/Award] Awards.
- Winner of the Best Canadian Film award at the 1997 Toronto Film Critics Association [Fest Awards.
- Winner of the Best Picture award at the 1997 Toronto Film Critics Association [Fest Awards.
- Nominated for a Best Art Direction/Production Design award at the 1997 Genie Awards [Festival/Award] Awards.
- Nominated for a Best Screenplay award at the 1997 Genie Awards [Festival/Award] Awards.
- Winner of the Best Foreign Film award at the 1997 Independent Spirit Awards [Festival/Aw Awards.
- Winner of the Grand Jury Prize award at the 1997 Cannes Film Festival [Festival/Award] Awards.
- Nominated for a Best Adapted Screenplay award at the 1997 Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Scie Awards.
- Winner of the Best Actor award at the 1997 Genie Awards [Festival/Award] Awards.
- Winner of the Best Picture award at the 1997 Genie Awards [Festival/Award] Awards.
- Nominated for a Best Costume Design award at the 1997 Genie Awards [Festival/Award] Awards.
- Winner of the Best Actor award at the 1997 Toronto Film Critics Association [Fest Awards.
- Nominated for a Best Actor award at the 1997 Genie Awards [Festival/Award] Awards.
- Nominated for a Best Actress award at the 1997 Genie Awards [Festival/Award] Awards.
- Winner of the Best Picture (Runner-up) award at the 1997 National Society of Film Critics [Fest Awards.
- Winner of the Best Actress - Runner-up award at the 1997 Toronto Film Critics Association [Fest Awards.
- Nominated for a Best Director award at the 1997 Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Scie Awards.
- Winner of the Best Editing award at the 1997 Genie Awards [Festival/Award] Awards.
- Winner of the FIPRESCI Award award at the 1997 Cannes Film Festival [Festival/Award] Awards.
Distributor
- Fine Line Features
- New Line Home Entertainment
