james r. elkins

"The Sweet Hereafter"
(1997)

Reviews:

From Agony to Myth

The Sweet Hereafter

Notes:

"The Sweet Hereafter" is rated by Gene Siskel, the film critic, as one of the 10 best films of 1997. [Film Picks -- Siskel & Ebert]

Zoe, Mitchell Stephen's daughter, was played by Caerthan Banks, the daughter of Russell Banks, the author of the book (of the same title), from which the film was adapted.

Further Readings (highly recommended):

Austin Sarat, Exploring the Hidden Domains of Civil Justice: “Naming, Blaming, and Claiming” in Popular Culture, 50 DePaul L. Rev. 425, 429 (2000)

__________, Imagining the Law of the Father: Loss, Dread, and Mourning in The Sweet Hereafter, 34 Law & Soc'y Rev. 3 (2000)

Bibliography:

Tony McAdams, Blame and The Sweet Hereafter, 24 Legal Stud. F. 599 (1999) [on-line text]

James R. Olchowy, Russell Banks' The Sweet Hereafter, Legal Storytelling and the Need for Alternatives to Litigation: Bypassing Court and "Bringing this Town Back Together," 14 Windsor Rev. Leg. & Soc. Issues 115 (2002)

Paul A. LeBel, "Giving Voice to Anger: The Role of the Lawyer in The Sweet Hereafter," in Rennard Strickland, Teree E. Foster & Taunya Lovell Banks (eds.), Screening Justice--The Cinema of Law: Significant Films of Law, Order and Social Justice 657-677 (Buffalo, New York: William S. Hein & Company, 2006)

Margaret J. Fried & Lawrence A. Frolik, The Limits of Law: Litigation, Lawyers and the Search for Justice in Russell Banks' The Sweet Hereafter, 7 Cardozo Stud. L. & Lit. 1 (1995)