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The Lovely Bones movie information
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To be released during:
Fall 2009 |
Previously Announced Release Dates:
2008
March 13, 2009 |
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Production Companies:
WingNut Films, FilmFour, Key Creatives |
Distributors:
DreamWorks |
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Status: Filming |
Cast:
Rachel Weisz, Mark Wahlberg, Saoirse Ronan, Stanley Tucci, Susan Sarandon, Michael Imperioli, Rose McIver, Carolyn Dando |
Director: Peter Jackson |
Screenwriter: Peter Jackson, Fran Walsh, Philippa Boyens | | Script: Novel Adaptation |
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| About the film:
The story opens in 1973 in Norristown, Pennsylvania, a suburb of Philadelphia. This is a quiet neighborhood in a time before photos of missing kids started appearing on milk cartons or in the daily mail. It was back when people believed things like that didn't happen. Just before Christmas, 14 years old Susie Salmon decides to take a short cut home from school. While she is crossing a cornfield she encounters a neighbor, George Harvey. He wants to show her the underground fort he has built as a clubhouse for the local kids. Susie follows him. She is never seen alive again. The next time the audience meets Susie, she is in her own personalized version of "heaven." It looks a lot like her school playground, with the good kind of swing sets. She meets Holly, another dead girl, and they strike up a friendship. Everything she ever wanted appears as soon as she thinks of it - except the thing she most wants: to be back with the people she loved on Earth. In the weeks following her death, Susie watches life on Earth continuing without her: her family holding out hope that she'll be found, her killer skillfully covering his tracks, the once intense police investigation beginning to wind down. And as she watches, Susie remains powerless to change anything on earth. As months pass without leads, Susie sees her parents' marriage fall apart. Her father, Jack, consumed with guilt over not having been able to protect his daughter, becomes more and more obsessed with catching Susie's killer. Susie watches as this obsession almost destroys her father. In the end, Susie faces a choice. To hold on to her own need for vengeance or to begin to see the world without her in it. |
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