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	The Sweet Hereafter (1997) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Trivia: Caerthan Banks is the daughter of 'Russell Banks', who wrote the novel (also titled "The Sweet Hereafter") that the film is based on.
		The Sweet Hereafter is as tragic, sad and matter-of-fact as movies get, but it's still so very beautiful that it becomes a film that's virtually impossible to forget.
		In focussing on that point, the film refrains from manipulative sentiment (which so many others don't), and presents true and unintrusive emotion, that, in the end, despite all the terror, shines a light of hope, for the sweet hereafter is not only the peaceful afterlife, it's also the peaceful future, the continuation of life...
	www.imdb.com /title/tt0120255 (521 words)

	Salon Entertainment \|The Sweet Hereafter
		Canadian director Atom Egoyan uses to shape "The Sweet Hereafter," his subtly shattering movie about the aftermath of a winter tragedy that kills almost all the children in a small rural town, is the Pied Piper of Hamelin.
		Based on the novel by Russell Banks, "The Sweet Hereafter" tells a handful of stories from different points of view, the fragments of these tales shifting backward and forward in time until the mosaic is complete.
		Polley, with her intense, direct gaze and her understated line readings, cuts to the center of "The Sweet Hereafter." Without a word, her Nicole manages to convey her outrage at Stephens' desire to reduce the tragedy to an act of negligence, recognizing that this only diminishes the sadness, horror and needlessness of the event.
	www.salon.com /ent/movies/1997/12/24sweet.html (887 words)

	Review: The Sweet Hereafter (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		The central event of The Sweet Hereafter is a school bus accident that results in the death of fourteen children and the injury of many others.
		The sweet hereafter is the strange, new land that her schoolmates reach, but which she has not yet attained.
		The most amazing thing about The Sweet Hereafter is not the style, the acting, or the cinematography (all of which are exceptional), but the way the film successfully juggles so many themes, persuading us to reflect upon them all before the 110 minute running time is up.
	movie-reviews.colossus.net /movies/s/sweet_hereafter.html (1289 words)

	Atom Egoyan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Atom Egoyan's The Sweet Hereafter is a serenely powerful, deeply moving tale of loss and healing.
		Inevitably, The Sweet Hereafter is a story of individual survival: the painful, intensely personal struggle to find a reason to continue after a profound loss.
		The Sweet Hereafter is a truly remarkable film, an elegantly realized, heartbreaking testament to the tenacity of the human spirit.
	www.filmref.com /directors/dirpages/egoyan.html (1074 words)

	Blame and The Sweet Hereafter
		AWYERS IN The Sweet Hereafter is based on a true story, the September 21, 1989 deaths near Alton, Texas of 21 children whose school bus plunged into a municipal gravel pit.
		And while the fictional characters in The Sweet Hereafter are obsessed with the question of blame, the real victims' families in south Texas seemed to observers not to have dwelt particularly on that question.
		Sweet Hereafter is a departure for director, Newsday, December 30, p.
	tarlton.law.utexas.edu /lpop/etext/lsf/mcadams24.htm (4330 words)

	The Sweet Hereafter (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		The Sweet Hereafter (1991) is his eleventh book, and like most of his work, especially the much-admired Continental Drift (1985) and Affliction (1989), it is set in northern New Hampshire, a densely forested region of mountains, harsh winters, and impoverished rural communities.
		In The Sweet Hereafter Banks dramatizes the aftermath of a tragic accident in the fictional New Hampshire town of Sam Dent (named for a long dead and forgotten local land developer).
		The voice of Mitchell Stephens - one of the most compelling characters in recent fiction - is one of four that share the narration of The Sweet Hereafter in alternating chapters.
	www.culturevulture.net /Books/SweetHereafter.htm (675 words)

	Amazon.com: The Sweet Hereafter (1997) : Video (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		The Sweet Hereafter is too honest to offer bromides, but it shows how a few people struggle, as best they can, to answer these questions for themselves.
		The Sweet Hereafter is ostensibly about a big city lawyer's attempts to win the trust of a small Canadian town in the wake of a tragedy.
		I consider The Sweet Hereafter to be one of the best movies ever made and each time I see the film it raises more questions.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/078062162X?v=glance (2293 words)

	'The Sweet Hereafter' (R)
		He certainly doesn't answer in Atom Egoyan's superb "The Sweet Hereafter," which watches a mad, vain scrambler seeking to impart his own meaning on someone else's terrifying disaster.
		As derived from the intense Russell Banks novel, the story follows lawyer Mitchell Stephens (Ian Holm) on his peregrinations through a western Canadian town where a school bus has recently fallen through the ice, drowning 14 children and leaving an enamel of grief as blinding as the snow that blankets the place.
		The sweet hereafter of the title is that zone of wisdom where we ultimately come to accept the unacceptable and in some provisional, broken way, go on living.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-srv/style/longterm/movies/videos/sweethereafterosullivan.htm (792 words)

	The Sweet Hereafter (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		The Sweet Hereafter tells the story of a town in the aftermath of a bus accident that kills most of their children.
		Told through the eyes of a lawyer (played by Ian Holm) who encourages the town to remember what happened in order to bring a negligence suit against the bus company, the film is a memory play, each interview revealing another layer in a town's hidden history.
		All the characters are living in the sweet hereafter, their wrongs righted on the lives of their children.
	members.aol.com /eugkuo/html/newbio/cinema/creviews1/sweethere.html (365 words)

	The Sweet Hereafter (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		THE SWEET HEREAFTER, Written and directed by Atom Egoyan based on the novel by Russell Banks.
		Like The Ice Storm, The Sweet Hereafter is in part, a reminder that responsibility, not meaninglessness, is the real horror of tragedy.
		What is left behind, in Nicole's case at least, is neither recrimination nor despair, but clarity, a hereafter that, sweet or not, must be reclaimed.
	www.bostonphoenix.com /archive/movies/97/12/25/THE_SWEET_HEREAFTER.html (755 words)

	Metroactive Movies \| The Sweet Hereafter
		Egoyan has said that The Sweet Hereafter is a sort of Western: a stranger comes to a guilty town isolated under a big sky.
		The Sweet Hereafter is charged with the power of classic Hollywood mysteries, and we're left tantalized by the unanswered questions, not teased.
		The Sweet Hereafter (R; 110 min.), directed and written by Atom Egoyan, based on the novel by Russell Banks, photographed by Paul Sarossy and starring Ian Holm and Sarah Polley.
	www.metroactive.com /papers/metro/12.24.97/sweet-hearafter-9752.html (805 words)

	The Sweet Hereafter Movie Review (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		In a similar vein to his previous efforts, TSH is a theme-driven exploration into the consequences of tragedy, the guilt of those who survive, and the basic human need to comprehend and assign blame.
		TSH also suffers from this, with Egoyan's indulgences sending the film off on tangents at times and some unresolved issues by the film's end.
		"The Sweet Hereafter" is a an emotionally-resonant film that provides further evidence of director Atom Egoyan's ability to speak to the frailty within all of us, so as not to turn away in the face of catastrophic change and to find the strength that comes in acceptance.
	members.aol.com /aleong1631/sh.html (893 words)

	Amazon.ca: The Sweet Hereafter (Widescreen): DVD (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Egoyan's Masterpiece, The Sweet Hereafter is a beautiful, stark, honest, poetic, and emotionally devastating examination of human nature and human resilience in the face of tragedy.
		"The Sweet Hereafter" is a powerful story about loss and frustration in a world where parents can`t seem to help their children, dreams start to fade and hope is destroyed.
		The Sweet Hereafter is more a work of art than a film, and that in itself will put off some people.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0780622251 (1264 words)

	The Sweet Hereafter
		Although The Sweet Hereafter is an even more complex puzzle than Egoyan's previous Exotica, all these disparate elements reveal themselves in similarly good time to be an essential part of this multidimensional story.
		In the end, The Sweet Hereafter rejects that particular idea of revenge, positing instead the notion that, shunning litigation, a community can care for its own (and suggesting that a lie, if told correctly and to the right people, can be a much-needed suture on a gaping wound).
		The DVD version of The Sweet Hereafter includes commentary by Egoyan and Banks and a Charlie Rose interview with Egoyan as well as the version of The Pied Piper of Hamelin featured in the film.
	www.deep-focus.com /flicker/sweether.html (987 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: The Sweet Hereafter: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		The Sweet Hereafter is an imperious novel about how a small town in upper New York responds to the loss of many of their children in a school bus accident.
		The freedom is lonely and terrifying, and parents, in an attempt flee back to the world of rules and consequences, turn their grief outward where it mutates into blame.
		The Sweet Hereafter was a book that I chose to read after I saw the movie.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/0060923245 (1099 words)

	The Sweet Hereafter (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		That scene replays itself in a number of ways before The Sweet Hereafter comes to its not-so-sweet conclusion, in large part because Stephens is a man on the verge of a meltdown.
		Holm is just as good at relating how he once sat in a car with a knife to his 3-year-old daughter's throat, prepared to perform an emergency tracheotomy if necessary to save her life en route to a hospital.
		Adding to the ominous nature of the proceedings are the white-on-white Canadian landscape and low camera angles that leave you with a constant sense of being loomed over.
	www.rambles.net /shereafter.html (474 words)

	The Sweet Hereafter (1997)
		A heartfelt exploration of loss and catastrophe, The Sweet Hereafter sets its roots in the close-knit society of an isolated Canadian settlement.
		While Atom Egoyan is not renowned for his empathy with community spirit, in The Sweet Hereafter he creates a truly believable habitation on the edge of the wilderness.
		Ultimately The Sweet Hereafter is consumed by the idea of coming to terms with tragedy by relying on friends, rather than suing strangers for ephemeral satisfaction.
	www.film.u-net.com /Movies/Reviews/Sweet_Hereafter.html (923 words)

	The Sweet Hereafter - Paul Roberts
		Investors came running like children to sweets, among them Charles Stewart Mott, the former General Motors magnate and philanthropist.[2] Civic hopes were stratospheric.
		Craving is so systematic that researchers long suspected a physical mechanism: after observing the way recovering heroin addicts crave sweets, investigators demonstrated that sweeteners stimulate the release of endorphins, the body's painkillers, in rats, and they suspect a similar reaction in humans.[4]
		But this sweet deal had a bonus: when forfeiting, the farmer paid the government neither interest nor the expense of marketing the crop - costs that typically add 2.5 cents a pound.
	www.wesjones.com /sugar1.htm (10273 words)

	Jesse Sykes & The Sweet Hereafter / Barsuk Records
		Jesse Sykes is an extraordinary singer and amazing songwriter whose dark songs of dislocation and reconciliation fall somewhere between the warm country-noir of Giant Sand, pour down like silver-era Richard/Linda Thompson, and the the elegant indie-rock of Cat Power.
		Oh, my girl is the second full-length resulting from her collaboration with Whiskeytown founding guitarist/songwriter Phil Wandscher, whose playing and songwriting underline how essential he was to that great original Whiskeytown lineup.
		The rest of The Sweet Hereafter — seasoned Joel Phelps/Neko Case sideman Bill Herzog on stand-up bass, Walkabouts violinist Anne-Marie Ruljancich, and stylish brush-and-mallet drummer Kevin Warner — is sublime.
	www.barsuk.com /web.cgi?jssh&jsshnews (231 words)

	The Sweet Hereafter (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Hereafter floats between three timelines and tells the tale from three POVs.
		A teenage girl, Nicole--one of the few survivors in the crash, who is affectionate, responsible, talented, and seemingly unaffected by a sexual relationship that is presented almost without comment.
		If you've been avoiding The Sweet Hereafter for some of the same reasons I have--gut it up.
	www.sims.berkeley.edu /~michelek/SweetHereafter.html (414 words)

	Literature Film Quarterly: Lyricism and accident in The Sweet Hereafter
		It is not surprising that Atom Egoyan's film adaptation of Russell Banks's novel, The Sweet Hereafter, makes a number of important changes-key scenes are transposed or eliminated, character is condensed, emphases are omitted or added-as often happens when a 250-plus-page novel needs to be reformatted into only 90 minutes of screen time.
		As the children vanish into the sweet hereafter, the overheard poem serves as a kind of relentlessly unsatisfactory aesthetic explanation.
		There is no "Sweet Hereafter" in Banks, and he uses Dickinson's poem with absolute irony.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qa3768/is_200301/ai_n9169214 (1236 words)

	THE SWEET HEREAFTER
		Winner of the Grand Jury Prize at this year's Cannes Film Festival, "The Sweet Hereafter" is a moving and disturbing look at the aftermath of a sudden, horrendous accident.
		The most effective, however, is a story told by Holm's character about his young daughter having an allergic reaction to spider bites and what he was prepared to do to save her life.
		We found "The Sweet Hereafter" nearly always compelling and thus give it an 8 out of 10.
	www.screenit.com /movies/1997/the_sweet_hereafter.html (1922 words)

	What's In 'The Sweet Hereafter'?
		And his newest film, The Sweet Hereafter drew me to Tampa to see it.
		The Sweet Hereafter is a modern retelling of the 'Pied Piper of Hamlin' poem by Robert Browning, which, if you all remember, tells how all the children of the town of Hamlin are taken by the Piper after the townspeople refused to pay him for his getting rid of all the rats.
		In The Sweet Hereafter, the Piper comes in the form of a school bus crash that kills nearly all of the children of the town of Sam Dent.
	www.theslant.com /arts_media/articles/sweet.html (604 words)

	Salon \| The Salon Interview: Russell Banks (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		In addition to the successful release of "The Sweet Hereafter," the adaptation of Banks' most autobiographical novel, "Affliction," has finally been delivered from development purgatory with the help of director Paul Schrader, and will be released this spring, starring Nick Nolte.
		I would say that Nicole Burnell in "The Sweet Hereafter" and Bone in "Rule of the Bone" are two of my most mature characters, the most adult characters.
		You don't feel at the end of the "Sweet Hereafter" that Nicole is incapable of loving anyone.
	archive.salon.com /books/int/1998/01/cov_si_05int.html (658 words)

	SPLICEDwire: "The Sweet Hereafter" review
		In "The Sweet Hereafter," Ian Holm plays an ambulance-chasing lawyer who arrives in a Canadian mountain hamlet to sign up grieving parents for a lawsuit in the wake of a fatal school bus accident.
		Suddenly paralyzed from the waist down, her entire life is changed, yet she seems the most introspective about the accident -- perhaps in part because of the way it alters her very suspect relationship with her father.
		Based on a novel by Russell Banks, "The Sweet Hereafter" was lovingly translated to film by Egoyan.
	www.splicedonline.com /98reviews/hereafter.html (610 words)

	IGN: The Sweet Hereafter Review
		Yet this lawyer is not the soulless evil lawyer of movie lore; he's neither a bad man nor a good man, he is simply a man like you or I, who is trying to justify his existence and the choices he has made in his life.
		The Sweet Hereafter also addresses dark issues that are untouched in most films, yet happen everyday.
		My favorite feature on the disk has to be a featurette titled "Before and After The Sweet Hereafter"-- It features highlights from an evening hosted by Michael Ondaatie (Author of English Patient) in which Russell Banks reads portions from his novel and Atom Egoyan talks about the translation from novel to film.
	dvd.ign.com /articles/037/037089p1.html (1071 words)

	eBay - Book: The Sweet Hereafter (ISBN: 0060923245) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		THE SWEET HEREAFTER was made into an acclaimed film in 1997, starring Ian Holm, by the Canadian director Atom Egoyan.
		A brilliant and powerful novel from the critically acclaimed author of Continental Drift that explores a small town's response to the inexplicable loss of its children in a school bus accident.
		In The Sweet Hereafter, Russell Banks tells a story that begins with a school bus accident.
	product.ebay.com /The-Sweet-Hereafter_ISBN_0060923245_W0QQfvcsZ1392QQsoprZ22520 (479 words)

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