A murdered fourteen-year-old girl 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.
20 October 1993, West Chester, Pennsylvania, USA
18 November 1987, Canton, Ohio, USA
November 28, 1972 in Meadowbrook, Pennsylvania, USA
31 October 1961, Pukerua Bay, North Island, New Zealand
10 October 1988, Auckland, New Zealand
15 March 1965, Ashburton, New Zealand
13 June 1927, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
15 April 1968, Lower Hutt, New Zealand
4 October 1946, New York City, New York, USA
11 November 1960, Peekskill, New York, USA
4 March 1947, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
30 July 1970, Cherry Hill, New Jersey, USA
1996
26 July 1996, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
21 January 1972
21 September 1983, Sudbury, Massachusetts, USA
June 22, 2013
This movie has about seven different tones it hops around, and it does so at all the wrong times.
January 15, 2010
Some books should stay between their covers, and The Lovely Bones may well be one of them.
January 15, 2010
Understand, the film still has power, just not as much as it should.
February 19, 2010
Jackson seems more at home in the afterlife than in this one, rendering this off-kilter project creepy and pretentious.
January 15, 2010
The movie is often wise.
March 29, 2011
The Lovely Bones is probably a much better idea for a book than it is a movie, but it's still a very good one, and those don't come along too often.
October 27, 2010
The talented cast struggles with, and is eventually failed by, the material. They are not aided by their director either, who seemingly stood slightly off screen and urged them to 'act bigger!'
March 30, 2011
Unshackled by earthly restraints, Jackson shifts his Weta toolsets into overdrive in a more-is-more free-for-all frenzy.
April 04, 2011
Your own peace will come after you walk out, trying hard not to laugh at how crazy-bad it all is.
July 06, 2010
I had a few bones to pick with the story.
February 05, 2010
Alice Sebold's evocative best seller proves to be more unfilmable than Tolkien's sprawling fantasy trilogy - a disappointment, yet it's impossible for anyone to do it better
January 15, 2010
This is a distractingly busy movie, so in love with its own considerable craft that it can't stay still long enough for anything to settle in.
