2008-09 Feinberg Series: The Sweet Hereafter Film Screening and Discussion
Please join us for the last of this year's 2008-09 Feinberg Series Thursday film screenings and discussions. The Sweet Hereafter film screening and discussion will be hosted by special guest Austin Sarat, William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Jurisprudence and Political Science at Amherst College.
Director Atom Egoyan's haunting adaptation of Russell Banks' novel follows a grieving Canadian mountain community in the wake of a tragic school bus accident. Lawyer Mitchell Stephens (Ian Holm) 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 (Sarah Polley) must choose between mourning and getting on with life.
"This is one of the best films of the year, an unflinching lament for the human condition." - Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times, December 23, 1997.
This event is free and open to the public.
