The Sweet Hereafter

[9] Ian Holm gives a career highlight performance in this Atom Egoyan adaptation of Russell Banks’ novel. Holm plays a lawyer who travels to a snowy, rural town to incite a lawsuit after a bus crash robs the community of its children. Naturally, no one trusts Holm at first, but the more he digs, the more secrets are uncovered, and the more the community unravels.