The Sweet Hereafter Movie Download

10 / 10

Beautifully Presented and So Sad!
I just chanced upon this film. Having watched a film called “Before and After” with Liam Neeson and Meryl Streep (a film that doesn’t work well at all), I got to see how tragedy and loss can be portrayed in a sensitive, gut wrenching way. The idea that after a terrible incident (a school bus going through the ice in a far northern clime) we can’t ever recover those lost sits atop this. The lawyer, who comes to town to try to earn money for himself and get the insurance companies to shell over a settlement, has his own ghosts, a drug using daughter who may be dying of AIDS, whom he has bailed out time after time. He is a beaten man, trying to do his job when his heart is not in it. We get to meet the families of the lost and survivors and their stories echo their confusion and sadness. The driver, herself, is a model citizen, and she is at the end of each chain. This is portrayed with such subtlety and such a delicate touch that it totally involves us. This is truly an outstanding movie.Read More