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The Sweet HereafterA school bus careers into a lake killing all but two of its passengers and ripping the youthful heart from a small community. Survivor Polley is left severely disabled. Into this cauldron of despair steps Holm as an ambulance-chasing lawyer who is losing his own daughter to drug addiction. He hopes to entice the parents of the victims into legal action against the authorities, and finds willing support from a number of them, including Polley's parents, McCamus and Johnson. But his case is vehemently opposed by Greenwood who, as fate would have it, witnessed his own two children die in the tragedy. Egoyan's drama, based on Banks' novel, concerns itself not so much with death as with the crippling guilt of the survivor. Chilling, pertinent and brave, its dislocated structure shuffles chronology, imagery and information to build towards a devastating climax. Holm's performance is a tour de force.
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