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A FILM WORTH A CLOSER LOOKTHE FEATURE PRESENTATION
IF THIS ONE STAYED WITH YOU
Keep the feeling.
SIMILAR PICKS / A PERSONAL CONNECTION
01
Why this pick
Like The Sweet Hereafter, it traces an accident’s widening emotional and ethical fallout through fractured viewpoints, with a restless, intimate attention to guilt, accountability, and lives that cannot return to normal.
02
Why this pick
Its patient, wintry stillness and spare observation of a woman living after inexplicable loss echo Egoyan’s haunting restraint and refusal to turn grief into easy explanation.
03
Why this pick
A fatal collision binds strangers in a non-linear, morally unsettled drama where private pain and responsibility keep shifting—an emotionally raw counterpart to Egoyan’s mosaic structure.
04
Why this pick
This is another coolly controlled study of a family after devastating loss, allowing silence, resentment, and compromised impulses to accumulate with the same grave, unsentimental force.
05
Why this pick
A close-knit family’s routines quietly disintegrate after tragedy in this compassionate, psychologically exact drama, matching the emotional honesty beneath The Sweet Hereafter’s formal design.
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01 / THE STORY
In the small town of Sam Dent, British Columbia, a school bus hits a patch of ice, runs through a barrier and crashes into a lake, killing 14 children. The grieving parents are approached by an out-of-town lawyer, Mitchell Stephens, who is haunted by his dysfunctional relationship with his drug-addicted daughter. Stephens persuades the reluctant parents and bus driver Dolores Driscoll to file a class action lawsuit against the town and bus company for damages, arguing that the accident is a result of negligence in constructing the barrier or the bus.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
Mitchell Stephens
Nicole Burnell
Dolores Driscoll
Risa Walker
Allison
Jessica
Sam Burnel
Wendell
