This is definitely something my mom would have been watching when I was a kid in the 90s, and I would have watched while I sat in the room playing, and I would have found it dreadfully boring.
I see why the people who love it feel that way. I didn't love the non-linear storytelling, and overall it felt sort of empty to me, but maybe that's the point.
The Sweet Hereafter
There is no such thing as the simple truth.
Rating
3.0 (1)
Release Date
9/25/1997Runtime
112 minsGenres
Overview
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.
Status
ReleasedOriginal Language
EnglishBudget
$5,000,000Revenue
$7,951,247Homepage
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How It Feels
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A devastating meditation on how tragedy fractures a community from within, told with moral ambiguity and deep empathy for those caught between blame and survival.
Mood
MournfulContemplativeBleakWistful
Themes
GriefFamilyComing apartJustice
Tone
Tender
Pacing
Meditative
Look
NaturalisticFormalist
Structure
Nonlinear
Heads up
Graphic violenceChild endangerment
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