The story of a life and everything that came after...
Not currently showing on the local cinema circuit.
Cast |
Rachel Weisz, Mark Wahlberg, Saoirse Ronan, Stanley Tucci, Jake Abel, Susan Sarandon, Michael Imperioli |
Director |
Peter Jackson |
Screenplay | Fran Walsh, Philippa Boyens, Peter Jackson, from the novel by Alice Sebold |
Music | Brian Eno |
Cinematography | Andrew Lesnie |
Editing | Jabez Olssen |
Sound formats | Dolby Digital |
Made in | 2009 |
Produced by | WingNut Films, DreamWorks SKG, Film4, Key Creatives |
Official Site | IMDB page | ScreenIt Report
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Genre | Thriller, drama |
Language | Infrequently moderate |
Nudity | None |
Sex | Mild, infrequent innuendo |
Violence | Fairly frequent, moderate, some blood, realistic |
Prejudice | None |
Blasphemy | None |
Drug abuse | Alcohol and tobacco use |
Comments | Pretty impactful threat and menace. |
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Disrespectful / Bad Attitude |
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Frightening / Tense Scenes |
Jump Scenes |
Tense Family Scenes |
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Scale (Max) | 20 | |
What the Critics say | ||
Die Burger Laetitia Pople Donker en lig sensitief ondersoek | 15 | |
Cape Times Kenneth Turan Film about afterlife never quite makes it to the other side | 5 | |
Box Office Sara Schieron Immersive and reverent adaptation of celebrated book club melodrama | 18 | |
Chicago Sunday Times Roger Ebert The Lovely Bones is a deplorable film. | 8 | |
eye Weekly Jason Anderson Peter Jackson’s decision to remove the airily austere tone of Alice Sebold’s original bestseller in favour of a more phantasmagorical approach turns The Lovely Bones into something deeply unlovely. | 1 | |
Rolling Stone Peter Travers Delicate business is being transacted as Peter Jackson, lord of the Rings fantasy, attunes himself to a family tragedy. | 10 | |
ScreenIt C. Fuchs Without enough viewer emotional engagement to overcome the problems, the offering comes off as frustrating and, ultimately, quite boring. | 8 | |
Metacritic.com 36 critics | 8 | |
Rottentomatoes critics 178 critics | 10 | |
Rottentomatoes tomatometer Tomatometer It's stuffed full of Peter Jackson's typically dazzling imagery, but The Lovely Bones suffers from abrupt shifts between horrific violence and cloying sentimentality. | 7 | |
What the People say | ||
Internet 13591 Netizens | 13 | |
Average .. 47% | 9 |