The Lovely Bones (2009) chronicles the life and afterlife of Susie Salmon, a teenager who is brutally murdered by her neighbor. The film unfolds from Susie’s perspective of the afterlife, where she ...

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Over 15 years ago, Saoirse Ronan starred in the gut-wrenching but poorly received The Lovely Bones, directed by Peter Jackson. Expectations were certainly high, seeing that such an established writer, ...

If anybody could bring The Lovely Bones to the screen, Peter Jackson would seem a perfect fit. The director of the worldly Heavenly Creatures (teenage girls, murder) and the otherworldly Lord of the ...

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The Lovely Boneshas all the adornments of a prestige drama aimed at adults. It was made by an Oscar-winning director, adapted from an acclaimed novel and features weighty subject matter. Given that ...

Discover What’s Streaming On: Saoirse Ronan landed her second BAFTA nomination for starring in Peter Jackson‘s 2009 mystery The Lovely Bones — and she was just 16. Ronan’s performance as Susie Salmon, ...

Irish-American actor Mark Wahlberg put himself through "emotional torture" making "The Lovely Bones." The actor was left emotionally and physically drained while shooting the movie — in which he plays ...

Deep inside every piece of rock, inside every slab of wood, lies a masterpiece waiting to be whittled out and uncovered. Sometimes, more often than many realize, a film maker doesn’t quite know when ...