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The Sweet Hereafter
Why this pick
Like Housekeeping, it finds grief and fractured family life in a cold, isolated small community, with a quietly elliptical structure and an atmosphere of fragile memory.
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MOVIE1987 1h 56m USA
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01 / THE STORY
A little about the film.
Teen sisters Ruth and Lucille, raised by a grandmother after their mother's suicide, end up living with an aunt in a western U.S. town called Fingerbone after the grandmother dies.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
The people who bring it to life.
Christine Lahti
Sylvie Fisher
Sara Walker
Ruth
Andrea Burchill
Lucille
Wayne Robson
Principal
Barbara Reese
Aunt Nona
Bill Smillie
Sheriff
Margot Pinvidic
Helen
Betty Phillips
Mrs. Jardine