There's a mesmerizing clarity to The Sweet Hereafter': you're moved by it, but you never feel the filmmaker is milking your emotions.

That's the true power of Egoyan's film - how in shuffling the chronological deck, we see what once was in this town, both in its light and its darkness, and how none of it will ever be the same, no matter what Mitchell Stevens says.

A delicate and touching story.

…a grown-up film about the kind of issues created in a small community, The Sweet Hereafter is a haunting lament for lost innocence...it it’s a super-rare lead for Ian Holm that really gives Atom Egoyan's adaptation of a Russell Banks novel a higher gear…