FORMAT..............: MP4 CODEC...............: X264 GENRE...............: Drama FILE SIZE...........: 811.84 MB RESOLUTION..........: 1280*536 FRAME RATE..........: 23.976 fps AUDIO...............: 92.0 Kbps AAC-LC (2CH) SUBTITLES...........: NONE LANGUAGE............: English RUNTIME.............: 112 mins
A small community is torn apart by a tragic accident which kills most of the town's children. A lawyer visits the victims' parents in order to profit from the tragedy by stirring up the their anger and launching a class action suit against anyone they can blame. The community is paralyzed by its anger and cannot let go. All but one young girl, left in a wheelchair after the accident, who finds the courage to lead the way toward healing.
Director Atom Egoyan's haunting adaptation of Russell Banks's novel follows a grieving mountain community in the wake of a tragic school bus accident that takes the lives of numerous local children. An ambulance-chasing lawyer arrives in town to persuade the survivors to initiate a class-action lawsuit, driving apart the once tight-knit hamlet. Meanwhile, a teen crippled in the crash must choose between mourning and moving on. Winner of the Grand Jury award at the 1997 Cannes Film Festival. Academy Award nominations: Best Director, Best Adapted Screenplay.
