Year			1997
Country			Canada
Genre			Drama
Length			1:52
Director			Atom Egoyan
Writer			Atom Egoyan Russell Banks
Company			Fine Line Features
Starring			Ian Holm Maury Chaykin Peter Donaldson Bruce Greenwood David Hemblen Brooke Johnson Show more... Ian Holm Maury Chaykin Peter Donaldson Bruce Greenwood David Hemblen Brooke Johnson Arsinée Khanjian Tom McCamus Stephanie Morgenstern Earl Pastko Sarah Polley Gabrielle Rose Alberta Watson Caerthan Banks

On a winter's day, in the small rural community of Sam Dent, British Columbia, a school bus inexplicably crashes into a frozen lake, taking the lives of fourteen children and injuring many others. Shortly thereafter, Mitchell Stephens (Ian Holm), a big city lawyer, comes to the community with promises to compensate its citizens for their loss. With a view to mounting a class-action lawsuit on behalf of the accident victims, Stephens interviews the survivors of the crash and the families who are mourning the deaths of their children.