
A fourteen-year-old girl in suburban 1970's Pennsylvania is murdered by her neighbor. She tells the story from the place between Heaven and Earth, showing the lives of the people around her and how they have changed all while attempting to get someone to find her lost body.... (Full plot summary below)
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A fourteen-year-old girl in suburban 1970's Pennsylvania is murdered by her neighbor. She tells the story from the place between Heaven and Earth, showing the lives of the people around her and how they have changed all while attempting to get someone to find her lost body.
Leave your thoughts about The Lovely Bones.
| MTVKurt LoderThis is a movie in which wonders truly never cease. |
| PopMattersBill GibronIt might take you a while to see it, and maybe more than one viewing, but in the end, The Lovely Bones becomes a heartbreaking, harrowing expression of love and loss |
| Moving Pictures MagazineAnnlee EllingsonPeter Jackson nails the dreamy atmosphere of a film straddling life and death in this story of a teenager caught between Earth and heaven. |
| Kansas City StarRobert W. ButlerUltimately, The Lovely Bones works best when Ronan simply reads Sebold's simple yet evocative prose. |
| Jam! MoviesJim SlotekTaken on its own, it's a mixed bag of grief and visual magic tricks that provides pleasant enough passive viewing, but doesn't do the greatest job of putting flesh on its characters' bones. |
| Portland OregonianShawn LevyAs someone new to the material, I found Jackson’s film soulful, respectful, masterful, horrifying, rending and emotionally true. It may not be the Lovely Bones that you have in mind, but it’s a fine and powerful one. |
| io9.comJohn ShirleyMost will hopefully see that in this very creative, authoritative film Peter Jackson preserves the characters, the theme, the dread, the delight found in the novel - and has added just enough of his own. |
| Minneapolis Star TribuneColin CovertRarely has a film launched by a killing seemed so insistently alive. |
| Film Journal InternationalKevin LallyPeter Jackson's elaborate visualization of the Alice Sebold best-seller fails to capture the poignant power of the original. |
| The Movie MinuteJoanna LangfieldWhen I first heard Peter Jackson was to direct the film version of this delicate best seller, I was, shall we say, surprised. However, when I saw the actual movie, I got it. Jackson wanted to play with heaven. |