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The Lovely Bones
A fourteen year old is killed and now she is narrating the tales of the place located between Earth and Heaven. She showcases people surrounding her and how they have transformed themselves to help her finding her lost body.
31 October 1961, Pukerua Bay, North Island, New Zealand
16 July 1987, Redmond, Washington, USA
15 October 1972, Reading, Pennsylvania, USA
July 06, 2010
I had a few bones to pick with the story.
January 15, 2010
The movie is often wise.
February 19, 2010
Jackson seems more at home in the afterlife than in this one, rendering this off-kilter project creepy and pretentious.
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
Some books should stay between their covers, and The Lovely Bones may well be one of them.
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
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.
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.
January 15, 2010
Understand, the film still has power, just not as much as it should.
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!'
June 22, 2013
This movie has about seven different tones it hops around, and it does so at all the wrong times.
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
