The Lovely Bones

12a / Peter Jackson / 2009 / The Lovely Bones / USA
A young girl watches over her family - and her killer - from the afterlife in this poignant adaptation of the novel by Alice Sebold. Growing up in the suburbs of Philadelphia, Susie Salmon has loving parents, as well as her wise and kindly Grandma Lynn. But tragedy strikes and Susie is just 14 years old when she is murdered on December 6th 1973. Finding herself in an in-between world that is neither Heaven nor Earth, Susie is able to watch over those she has left behind and try to help them catch her killer. Her father has "all the pieces of the puzzle" but can't put them together, while detective Len Fenerman questions neighbour Mr Harvey, and Susie's sister Lindsey embarks on her own dangerous hunt for the truth.