The Lovely Bones
This movie is about a girl who gets murdered and now she is expressing her story of where she is, between heaven and earth. She narrates how people nearby her are living and how they are trying hard to acquire someone who can assist her in searching for her lost body.
1988, Auckland, New Zealand
20 August 1988, Los Angeles, California, USA
13 June 1927, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
5 February 1963, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
20 October 1993, West Chester, Pennsylvania, USA
16 July 1987, Redmond, Washington, USA
November 28, 1972 in Meadowbrook, Pennsylvania, USA
12 May 1935, Oklahoma, USA
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!'
July 06, 2010
I had a few bones to pick with the story.
April 04, 2011
Your own peace will come after you walk out, trying hard not to laugh at how crazy-bad it all is.
January 15, 2010
Understand, the film still has power, just not as much as it should.
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
The movie is often wise.
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
March 30, 2011
Unshackled by earthly restraints, Jackson shifts his Weta toolsets into overdrive in a more-is-more free-for-all frenzy.
January 15, 2010
Some books should stay between their covers, and The Lovely Bones may well be one of them.
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.
February 19, 2010
Jackson seems more at home in the afterlife than in this one, rendering this off-kilter project creepy and pretentious.
