CBC has a movie scheduled to air Saturday called The Sweet Hereafter.

It's about a lawyer who seeks input from parents who lost children in a Canadian bus crash that claimed 14 lives.

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"I can confirm that in light of yesterday's tragic bus accident involving the Humboldt Broncos the CBC will be pulling The Sweet Hereafter and replacing it with another movie tonight (Saturday)," Chuck Thompson, head of public affairs, CBC Services, said.

The movie The Bang Bang Club will replace The Sweet Hereafter on the schedule, he added. Unfortunately, people will continue to see The Sweet Hereafter on the electronic program guide, which can only be changed on a 24-hour turnaround.

The circumstances in the movie are eerily similar to the circumstances of Friday's bus accident that killed 15 people including players and the coach of the Saskatchewan Junior Hockey League team and injuring 14 others who survived the crash. The cause of the crash is still under investigation.

Critically acclaimed, The Sweet Hereafter was filmed in Canada in 1997 and written and directed by Atom Egoyan. The movie, which won many awards including the first Grand Prix to be awarded to a Canadian film was also named one of the top 10 Canadian films of all time and considered a classic. The movie was inspired by actual events that took place in Alton, Texas, where a school bus accident resulted in the deaths of 14 children, and prompted a class-action law suit.