The Lovely Bones

• 2009
• UK / US / New Zealand
• 2h 15min
• 12A

• Directed by: Peter Jackson
• Written by: Peter Jackson, Fran Walsh, Philippa Boyens
• Cast: Mark Wahlberg, Rachel Weisz, Susan Sarandon, Stanley Tucci, Michael Imperioli, Saoirse Ronan
• Website: www.lovelybones.com

The problems with Jackson's adaptation of Alice Sebold's popular novel run much deeper than the usual stumbling block of having a macabre subject matter. The casting is seriously misjudged, and, shirking away from the darkest elements of the novel, the tone and the aesthetic are completely wrong - where in the book, Susie (Ronan) resides in a 14-year-old's idea of heaven, Jackson seems to have designed the movie equivalent in a Salvador Dali museum.

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