The Sweet Hereafter

A woman seems to have it all, until another woman wants everything.

Small town lawyer Harmon Cobb defends a German prisoner of war against murder charges. Set during World War II, Cobb has to contend with the difficulties of defending the devil when the town's only do

In the second dramatic case for widowed near-defunct small-town lawyer Harmon Cobb, he defends an incarcerated woman named Billie who is refused release from a mental institution in 1947.

Everything changes for 15-year-old Mia when her mum brings home a new boyfriend.

An intellectually disabled man fights for custody of his 7-year-old daughter and in the process teaches his cold-hearted lawyer the value of love and family.

A recently widowed writer whose wife died in a bus crash comes to terms with his grief, or lack of it, in caring for the children of a working man who also lost his wife in the same accident.

Based on a real-life case in 1925, two great lawyers argue the case for and against a science teacher accused of the crime of teaching evolution.

A young woman witnesses bizarre occurrences during a bus trip.

Karl Childers, a simple man hospitalized since his childhood murder of his mother and her lover, is released to start a new life in a small town.

A young man searches for home in the changing city that seems to have left him behind.

The traumatized survivors of a murderous bus hijacking come together and take a road trip to attempt to overcome their damaged selves. Meanwhile a serial killer is on the loose.

An alcoholic Boston lawyer fights a law firm dean.