The Lovely Bones (2009)

Cast: Mark Wahlberg, Rachel Weisz, Susan Sarandon

Director: Peter Jackson

Genre: thriller, horror, fantasy

I'm not sure how so much could go wrong on this film. It seemed like a
pretty sure thing: a book that has been very widely acclaimed and read
as a work of sad life-and-death meditation from a 14 year old girl
looking down or somehow from the "in-between", a kind of purgatory,
after being raped and murdered, on her family and killer. It seems like
the stuff that could make for some harrowing dramatic material… or,
possibly, a sappy story. It turns out Jackson takes the latter route,
but there's more than that wrong here. It's a giant miscalculation that
has a few moments of real impact and where the performances match up
with the materi…

Trailer The Lovely Bones