The Lovely Bones
The Lovely Bones is a 2009 supernatural drama film directed by Peter Jackson from a screenplay he co-wrote with Fran Walsh and Philippa Boyens. It is based on Alice Sebold's 2002 novel of the same name. The film stars Mark Wahlberg, Rachel Weisz, Susan Sarandon, Stanley Tucci, Michael Imperioli, and Saoirse Ronan. The plot follows a girl who was murdered and watches over her family from heaven. She is torn between seeking vengeance on her killer and allowing her family to heal.
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| Running time | 135 minutes
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| Language | English
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| Budget | $65 million
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| Box office | $93.6 million
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- Billy Jackson: Peter Jackson's son, can be seen shopping at the record store in the mall.
- Peter Jackson tried to secure the rights to the book while working on The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002) but at that time, the rights were snapped up by a British studio (ITV) with an option to make a film. However, since it was never made, the rights lapsed. During production of King Kong (2005), co-producer Tessa Ross found out that the rights had become available and she and Jackson secured them.
- The end credits take up 15 minutes of the film's running time.
- There is a poster advertising J.R.R. Tolkien's "Lord of the Rings" books at the bookstore. The director Peter Jackson's previous movies were, of course, the Lord of the Rings trilogy.
- Many of the details and sequence of events in the movie differ from Alice Sebold's novel. In the novel, George Harvey dismembers Susie's body and disposes of it by dropping the safe in the sinkhole immediately after the murder (instead of much later, as in the movie). But George accidentally drops her elbow, which once found by the police, forces the Salmon family to acknowledge her death earlier than in the movie.
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