The Lovely Bones (2009)

The Lovely Bones

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Release Date:	26 December 2009
Country:	UK, New Zealand, US
Genre:	Fantasy, Drama
Production Companies:	WingNut Films, DreamWorks Pictures, Film4 Productions
Watched by:	8 082 of 1 007 389
Runtime:	2 hours 16 minutes

After being brutally murdered, 14-year-old Susie Salmon watches from heaven over her grief-stricken family -- and her killer. As she observes their daily lives, she must balance her thirst for revenge with her desire for her family to heal.

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07 Sep 2022, 21:56 #

If the chair burned under me from the book, then I just fell asleep from the film adaptation. One of the longest films of my life. But he didn't take his plus, the shizu with the introduction from the end of the book.

20 Mar 2024, 10:20 #

@AliraRo: I haven't read it, but can you tell me why my sister didn't hand over the killer with the records? Is it really possible to live nearby and realize who he is? Or didn't they believe her?

19 Apr 2024, 21:00 #

@pryanya_00: Oh, I've been reading for a long time and I don't remember such details. But it seems to me that none of the family knew who the killer was and did not suspect him.

04 May 2025, 07:45 #

@pryanya_00: In the book, the father guessed that it was a neighbor. He told the detective about it, but no one found any evidence and initially they did not believe him. My sister and father took out a piece of paper from the neighbor's diary, which proved his guilt. But again, no one believed him. And then, when the detective realized that his father was right, when he even found evidence (a neighbor in another city dropped part of the girl's bracelet next to the body of another victim while disposing of another body), then no one found this neighbor. He moved under other names.
The film showed his death very stupidly. Of course, the book doesn't give much more information about him. But at least it mentions that the girl helped him fall into the ravine with the help of that icicle.
Actually, there are also a lot of plot holes in the book, just like in the movie.

16 Nov 2022, 12:01 #

The film impressed me very much.
I liked how they beat and showed death from the other side.
It was sad to realize that Susan wouldn't be home for dinner and, in general, wouldn't meet the guy of her dreams.
It's a pity that Susie's body was never found, and the killer did not pay for his actions

28 Feb 2023, 09:08 #

The movie is beautiful and good, but not something that will chill, that will cause a shiver of admiration, that will make you look at the screen without stopping, empathizing with the characters. You will be fed with capital biblical truths, stunning images a la Salvador Dali or the cult film "Where Dreams Lead", slightly annoying Saoirse Ronan in large numbers and excellent acting by Stanley Tucci. You can watch it. Get a little fun too. But don't count on more.

22 Mar 2023, 00:41 #

I cried terribly, the actors' acting and the story itself were very touched. It is better to refrain from viewing too impressionable, but the main thing is to understand the meaning.

09 May 2023, 09:39 #

One of those movies that parents should watch... It's a very sad story, it's impossible to watch without tears 😭

07 Jul 2023, 11:27 #

The film is memorable, beautiful and sad, I advise you!

19 Dec 2023, 18:05 #

What a nuisance.. There are a lot of films with a similar plot that are much more intense. I don't understand why I've heard about this movie for so many years, it's overrated🥱

zhosman-kinoman

23 Jan 2024, 01:02 #

A great movie!

05 Feb 2024, 20:33 #

The book is more sensual, but the movie is also good

21 Mar 2024, 20:52 #

And there is sadness in my eyes....

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21 Jun 2024, 17:18 #

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21 Jun 2024, 17:18 #

And it's true that the film lasts a very long time. The whole viewing is in tears. No painting has ever touched me so much. Bravo to the director!

24 Jun 2024, 22:56 #

The film touches to the depths of the soul. Stanley Tucci's wonderful acting is definitely now on the list of favorite movie maniacs

17 Aug 2024, 21:23 #

A great movie in everything from the visual to the script. Comparing a book with a film adaptation is a thankless task in my opinion, if small digressions are made

19 Dec 2024, 15:45 #

Stanley Tucci played his part like this

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26 Dec 2024, 20:05 #

I don't even know how to compare the sensations of the film. The acting is great, Stanley Tucci is great, I've usually seen him in the form of nice people, but here. I watched the whole movie and waited for them to reveal who the killer was, but in the end, almost no one cares. When the kissing scene just started, I almost yelled at the screen, "catch the asshole," but no, we have a love line... And the rapist died a stupid death... I don't know how much I wanted him to be caught, but he ran away anyway. And as far as I'm concerned, he didn't suffer any punishment... The bottom line is, the movie itself is good, but the ending let you down...

25 Jan 2025, 10:42 #

"And if only an hour of love...
was given to me on this earth...
just one hour... Just an hour of love...
I would give my love to You."

04 May 2025, 07:47 #

I don't understand such admiration for the film and the book at all. The topic itself is great to raise among parents, children, and youth. But its implementation, both as a book and a film adaptation, leaves much to be desired. There are a lot of plot holes in the book, and even more so in the movie. Except: it's boring, you can't come up with a description anymore.

09 Jun 2025, 12:26 #

One of the best movies of my life! Amazing acting, incredible young Saoirse 💗
I can't believe this movie was made by Peter Jackson, from whom we used to expect something else. It is for such directing that the highest awards should be given: incredibly subtly, metaphorically, multifaceted, masterfully he reveals the feelings of the main character and gets into the very depths of the viewer's soul! Bravo. The film is incredibly light, despite the horror of what is happening in it according to the plot. Life-affirming. Movies with a capital letter!

09 Jun 2025, 13:36 #

The movie is not bad, but the moments from the "other world" are so boring, they just spoil everything.

19 Jul 2025, 18:59 #

The movie is kind of rotten, drawn out, I don't know, it didn't come at all, neither to cry, nor what

02 Aug 2025, 15:44 #

I didn't understand the excitement about this movie, to be honest. immiscible genres were mixed, and it turned out to be neither one nor the other. It was as if the parents had given up on the rest of the children, dumped them on a thumping grandmother. we wanted to add humor to this, but it turned out to be out of place and uncomfortable.

At the end, I didn't understand why, having possessed a brunette girl, it was impossible for a kid to say, "dude, I'm actually there, in the drawer! Pull over that nasty moustache and call the police!" instead of "oh, I got your letter," really? did she choose to be buried in a pile of scrap metal in some kind of safe rather than give her family the opportunity to at least bury herself like a human being?

nothing twitched inside me from this movie, although the subject is very serious and heavy, but the interpretation is disgusting. It was drawn out, dry, without emotion, in no way.

29 Aug 2025, 17:09 #

It's a very good movie.

20 Sep 2025, 09:18 #

The end is complete, the pdf file has gone off into the sunset to kill further, Suzy's body will never be buried by her family. Is it so hard to realize justice at least in the film? Unfortunately, such finals are quite common in trukraim.

12 Nov 2025, 21:17 #

I watch this movie consistently once a year. Once upon a time, he touched me to the depths of my soul. It was shot well in my opinion, the acting is excellent! Mark Wahlberg reveals himself here in a completely different way than in many of his other works. and the reincarnation of Stanley Tucci is repulsive and causes horror and disgust, bravo for such a game.

26 Nov 2025, 16:40 #

The ending with him not being caught and continuing to kill is a nightmare. It is clear that he has aged, which means that he has lived long enough. Thank you for the "beautiful" moral of the film: the murdered girls are happy in heaven, and the bastard who did this to them is alive and well and not punished. I fell off a cliff and died - it's not a punishment, it's a ridiculous accident.
All of his victims deserve, at the very least, to be caught and judged for everything he has done. So that their families can bury their daughters, or at least know that their killer has been punished.
No, girls who are killed by pedophiles are not happy in heaven. It hurts them, it's scary, they suffer when they're killed, and if you make a movie about it, then it's understandable. So that the film would be hard and disgusting, so that it would be scary, so that after the film there would be a leaden residue, which would not be able to shake off immediately. Because that's really how it is: ugly, scary, and hard.

George_Lightwood

01 Dec 2025, 21:15 #

I would love to see a version of the film without the fabulousness and phantasmagoria. Yes, they gave a special charm, but just imagine how much more advantageous it would have looked if everything had remained within the framework of realism.

Stanley Tucci created one of the most vivid, creepy and memorable images of maniacs. Just looking at him gives me goosebumps. And the scene with the plaque... My heart skips a beat every time!

If you cut the timing by half an hour, cut out all these bizarre fairy–tale scenes, remove an extra branch from the mother-in-law, do not show Suzy after the cornfield, strengthen the suspense between the maniac and the heroine's family - it would be a perfect thriller, one of the best! Seriously.

As it is, it's just a good movie, the best part of which can definitely be called the antagonist. The actor invested 10/10 in the role.

George_Lightwood

01 Dec 2025, 21:22 #

I agree with the comments that the ending is not satisfying. But really... is it not realistic? In the film, not just a murderer, but a serial maniac by experience. Caught maniacs are bad maniacs. This one was not one of those, so it was natural that he was not caught. There are thousands of such cases where neither the body nor the killer is found. Therefore, this is literally the most realistic part of the film. It would even be better if they hadn't shown his ridiculous death from an icicle. Another foreign fairy-tale element that stands out from the overall gloomy atmosphere of the film

16 Dec 2025, 13:32 #

@George_Lightwood: you know, in our reality, it's enough to read the news to see the finale, where everyone died, no one was found, and so on. people at least want to see justice in the movies, which is often lacking in life.

Do you remember the movie Requiem for a Dream? there was a theme of seals, NOT romanticized. this movie caused the reaction it was supposed to - it was imprinted in my memory, it was disgusting, scary. Yes, no one died there, but you look and think that it would be better if they died, right? Why live like this? such a topic is bound to cause such a reaction that this toggle switch clicks in my head, "it's not allowed, it's forbidden, ugh." people who watched him 20 years ago still remember him, many thanks to him have avoided similar problems with substances and so on.

people were waiting for the same picture on an equally serious topic of pdfilia, most likely. There's nothing romantic about it, it's a disease, a deviation, an aversion. this should be forbidden in the head by default. therefore, many (like me) did not accept the ending and did not understand the meaning of these inserts about "a happy life in heaven"

I have no complaints about the director, he makes awesome fiction, VK, the Hobbit, King Kong, scarecrows, I watched most of his works. But I still haven't figured out who this movie is aimed at.

George_Lightwood

16 Dec 2025, 15:11 #

@vasha_gadost: It sounds reasonable, I agree. At least let justice prevail in fictional stories. About a happy life in heaven, a separate plus is really the most controversial moment of the film.

It's just that I personally love realism in movies and don't always believe in "the villains got what they deserved and everyone lived happily ever after." In reality, it's usually the other way around. And I appreciate when movies aren't afraid to give an honest ending without a happy ending. This allows viewers not to get lost in illusions about the existence of justice from above and to look soberly at reality, where evil often wins and remains unpunished.

12 Apr 21:22 #

I didn't like the ghost move. We spent a lot of time on uninteresting shit. it would be better if this time was spent on hyping a thriller and new victims, as well as passions. And his death watch

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