The Lovely Bones movie

Based on the Alice Sebold book of the same name, about a murdered 14 year old girl who recalls what happened from Heaven, as the incident affects those around her.

The Lovely Bones is a 2002 novel by Alice Sebold. It is the story of a teenage girl who, after being brutally raped and murdered, watches from heaven as her family and friends go on with their lives, while she herself comes to terms with her own death. The novel received a large amount of critical praise and became an instant bestseller.An adaptation of the novel is currently in preproduction and will be directed by Peter Jackson, who personally purchased the rights.Plot introductionIn 1973, a 14-year-old girl named Susie Salmon is raped, murdered, and dismembered by a neighbor serial killer. Over the next few years she watches from a personalized heaven as her family and friends deal with their grief.Explanation of the novels titleThe novels title stems from a line towards the end of the novel, in which Susie ponders her friends and familys newfound strength after her death:These were the lovely bones that had grown around my absence: the connections ? sometimes tenuous, sometimes made at great cost, but often magnificent ? that happened after I was gone.

And I began to see things in a way that let me hold the world without me in it. The events my death wrought were merely the bones of a body that would become whole at some unpredictable time in the future. The price of what I came to see as this miraculous lifeless body had been my life.Plot summaryOn December 6, 1973 in Norristown, Pennsylvania, a suburb of Philadelphia, Susie Salmon takes a shortcut home from school. She is accosted by a neighbor, George Harvey, a man in his mid-30s who lives alone and builds dollhouses for a living. A serial killer who has killed women young and old going as far back as 1959, he persuades her to enter an underground den he has recently built nearby. Once she enters, he rapes and stabs her, cutting her body into parts, and then collapses the den.

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