Today’s movie is a
drama with a scene that happens on December 6. Watch it tonight and enjoy.
THE LOVELY
BONES
Susie Salmon lives a relatively normal suburban childhood with
photography, crushes and saving her brother’s life. Then on December 6,
1973 [15:28 to 38:08], while cutting through a cornfield on her way home from
school, she makes the mistake of climbing down into an underground room at the
behest of her neighbor, George Harvey. When she becomes uncomfortable she tries
to leave and the scene fades. Her parents look for her, in spite of the police
thinking she has run away. Susie returns to her house, but no one is there. She
walks through a door into a white limbo where she sees Harvey taking a bath.
When she sees her charm bracelet hanging on his sink, Susie realizes Harvey murdered
her and she is pulled into the ‘in-between’, nether Earth or Heaven. Harvey
disposes of all the evidence at his house before the police talked to him. Ruth
Connors talks to Ray Singh at the mall where he was to meet Susie and she sees
Susie, earning Susie the criticism of Holly, who is also in the “in-between”
and who urges her to move on to Heaven. Susie instead goes back. She exists in the “in-between” while her
parents try to cope, with her father, Jack investigating Susie’s disappearance,
using suspects gathered from the rolls of film left by Susie, which he develops
at the rate of one per month. Their dog barks at Harvey. Their Mom leaves,
because of Jack’s refusal to stop investigating has left her feeling alienated.
Harvey starts spying on Lindsey, Susie’s younger sister. Jack starts to suspect
Harvey, especially after Susie makes a dead flower from Harvey’s yard bloom.
Jack follows Harvey to the cornfield one night, but instead gets beaten up by a
teen couple who were using it as a make–out spot. In the ‘in-between’ Susie
sees all of Harvey’s other victims, one of who was Holly. Lindsey breaks into
Harvey’s house and finds a notebook with a lock of Susie’s hair, but upon
returning home and finding her mother has returned she gives it to her grandmother
instead. Harvey knows she took the notebook and flees. Susie returns to Earth
and enters Ruth Connor’s body allowing her to have her last wish and kiss Ray
Singh. She then departs for Heaven with Harvey’s other victims. Harvey dumps
the safe with Susie’s body into a sinkhole. Later Harvey offers a young girl
outside a diner a lift, but she refuses. An icicle falls, hits him in the
shoulder and knocks him over a cliff, killing him. Susie’s family finally
achieves peace and healing after her death.
A very powerful film. There are
some disturbing images here, so this film is definitely not for children. Saoirse Ronan and Stanley Tucci both give
outstanding performances.
The Lovely Bones by Alice
Sebold (Little, Brown & Co., New York, 2002) at page 5 and the film at 7:15
to 7:17 give the date she was killed
Producers - Peter Jackson, Fran
Walsh, Carolynne Cunningham and Aimée Peyronnet
Director - Peter Jackson
Screenplay - Peter Jackson, Fran
Walsh and Philippa Boyens
Awards – This movie was nominated
for the Best Supporting Actor (Tucci) Oscar at the 82nd Academy
Awards
Runtime – 2 hours 15 minutes
Released – November 24, 2009
Starring –
Saoirse Ronan as Susie Salmon, a
14-year-old girl who is killed by her neighbor
Mark Wahlberg as Jack Salmon,
Susie's father
Rachel Weisz as Abigail Salmon,
Susie's mother
Rose McIver as Lindsey Salmon,
Susie's younger sister
Stanley Tucci as George Harvey, a
serial killer who murders Susie
Susan Sarandon as Grandma Lynn,
Susie's grandmother
Michael Imperioli as Len
Fenerman, the detective who investigates Susie's death
Reece Ritchie as Ray Singh,
Susie's love interest and friend
Charlie Saxton as Ronald Drake,
one of the murder suspects
Amanda Michalka as Clarissa,
Susie's best friend
Carolyn Dando as Ruth Connors, a
classmate of Susie's
Nikki SooHoo as Denise
"Holly" Le Ang, Susie's best friend in Heaven
Jake Abel as Brian Nelson
Thomas McCarthy as Principal
Caden
Andrew James Allen as Samuel
Heckler
Copyright by Ivan Walters in 2014.
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