The Sweet Hereafter
Movie • 1997 • Drama
ReportA 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.
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One of the children engages in intercourse with her father, constituting statutory rape.
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One of the children engages in intercourse with her father, constituting statutory rape. We see him lead her into a barn and they lie down and begin to make out.
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Is there pedophilia?
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One of the children engages in intercourse with her father, constituting statutory rape.
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Is a minor sexualized?
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One of the children engages in intercourse with her father, constituting statutory rape.
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One of the children engages in intercourse with her father, constituting statutory rape.
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Drug use is not depicted, but an addict is.
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Is there addiction?
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The lawyer's daughter is an addict and calls him multiple times throughout the film to ask for money. We also see him on a flight to go see her because she is "unwell" and he speaks with another passenger about her multiple attempts at rehab.
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Are there spiders?
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liminalspace
there is a conversation about bad spider bites but no spiders are seen
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Children
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esh99
The movie is about the aftermath of a school bus accident in which many children died, the event is shown.
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Family
Does someone cheat?
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Two of the parents have an ongoing affair. One is presently married; the other is widowed. Another parent engages in ongoing incest with his young daughter without his wife's knowledge.
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Is there ableist language or behavior?
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A young girl is paralyzed from the waist down and uses a wheelchair after a bus accident; she feels her life is ruined and this belief is not challenged by the narrative.
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One of the children engages in intercourse with her father, constituting statutory rape. We see him lead her into a barn and they lie down and begin to make out. There's also ansex scene with pair of parents engaging in an ongoing extramarital affair.
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One of the children engages in intercourse with her father, constituting statutory rape.
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Does it have a sad ending?
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Sort of. The gist of it is that a lawyer comes to town and makes everyone re-live their grief/trauma and in the end, it was all for nothing. We see the wrecked school bus being hauled away and a line from the narrator stating that the town and the people who live there are different now.
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The bus crashes through a guard rail and loses control across a frozen lake before breaking through the ice.
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Does a car honk or tires screech?
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One of the parents follows behind the school bus every day on his way to work and honks and waves at his kids. There is also honking and failure to to brake due to ice during the scene where the bus is shown losing control.
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Does someone drown?
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A dozen kids drown when a school bus sinks into a frozen lake. There is no underwater scene or bus interior during this part of the movie, but we see the bus sink and hear the kids screaming until it goes under.
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