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Normal Tickets
6:30pm - Wednesday, Apr 22, 2026
The Sweet Hereafter + undertone (Canadian Film Week - Single Film & Double Feature)
The Rio Theatre concludes #CanadianFilmWeek with one of the most honoured Canadian films of all time, Atom Egoyan’s 1997 drama THE SWEET HEREAFTER.
Winner of the Grand Prix at Cannes and nominated for 16 Genie Awards (it won eight - including Best Picture, Director and Actor), Egoyan’s masterful adaptation of a novel by Russell Banks traces the aftermath of a school bus accident in a small Canadian town that leaves fourteen children dead. When Mitchell Stephens (Ian Holm), a big-city lawyer, arrives to organize a class-action lawsuit, his presence stirs up tensions within the town. Garnering Academy Award nominations for Egoyan for both Best Director and Adapted Screenplay, THE SWEET HEREAFTER is a powerful, deeply empathetic exploration of what it means to go on living in the face of tragedy.
Widely regarded as one of the greatest Canadian films ever made, it was voted the best Canadian film of all time in a Playback readers’ poll in 2002, and ranked in the top five in polls of the Top 10 Canadian films of all time conducted by the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) in 2004 and 2015. It was named one of 150 essential works in Canadian cinema history in a similar poll in 2016.
Wednesday, April 22
Doors 6:00 pm | Movie 6:30 pm *Start time subject to change. Please arrive on time.
Why not make it a #CanadianFilmWeek Double Feature with UNDERTONE for one sweet price!
THE SWEET HEREAFTER (Atom Egoyan, 1997 /112 mins / 14A) A 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.
