If you haven’t watched it recently—or if you’ve only read the book—here is why this strange, beautiful, and flawed film still lingers in the memory. Susie Salmon (Saoirse Ronan) is a typical teenager in 1970s Pennsylvania. She dreams of being a photographer, fights with her little sister, and crushes on a boy at school. But on a snowy December afternoon, she takes a shortcut through a cornfield.
Her neighbor, George Harvey (Stanley Tucci), lures her into an underground den. In a flash, Susie is gone. the lovely bones phim
It is imperfect. It is messy. It is as awkward and confusing as grief itself. If you haven’t watched it recently—or if you’ve
When Peter Jackson announced he was adapting Alice Sebold’s bestselling novel The Lovely Bones for the big screen, the literary world held its breath. How do you visualize heaven? How do you film the unspeakable? But on a snowy December afternoon, she takes