The Lovely Bones (film)

The Lovely Bones is a 2009 American drama film about a young girl who has been murdered and watches over her family - and her killer - from purgatory. She must weigh her desire for vengeance against her desire for her family to heal.
 * Directed by Peter Jackson. Written by Fran Walsh, Philippa Boyens, and Peter Jackson, adapted from the 2002 novel of the same name by Alice Sebold.

The story of a life and everything that came after... (taglines)

Susie Salmon

 * I was slipping away, that's what it felt like, life was leaving me, but I wasn't afraid; then I remembered: "There was something I was meant to do; somewhere I was meant to be."
 * Always, I would watch Ray; I was in the air around him, I was in the cold winter mornings he spent with Ruth Connors; and sometimes Ray would think of me, but he began to wonder maybe it was time to put that memory away, maybe it was time to let me go.
 * There was one thing my murderer didn't understand; he didn't understand how much a father could love his child.
 * My murderer was a man from our neighborhood. I took his photo once; he stepped out of nowhere and ruined the shot. He ruined a lot of things.
 * I wasn't lost, or frozen, or gone... I was alive; I was alive in my own perfect world.
 * Holly said there was a wide, wide heaven beyond everything we knew; where there was no cornfield, no memory, no grave... but I wasn't looking beyond yet, I was still looking back.
 * I was in the blue horizon between heaven and earth. The days were unchanging and every and every night, I dream the same dream. The smell of damp earth. The scream no one heard. The sound of my heart beating like a hammer against cloth and I would hear them calling, the voices of the dead. I wanted to follow them to find a way out but I would always come back to the same door. And I was afraid. I knew if I went in there I would never come out.
 * Grandma Lynn predicted I would live a long life because I had saved my brother. As usual, Grandma Lynn was wrong.

Dialogue

 * Susie Salmon: [opens her locker as her books fall out] Oh! Crap.
 * Ray Singh: [laughs] Oops.
 * Susie Salmon: [starts picking her books up] It's okay.
 * Ray Singh: It's fine. I got it. [secretly slips a note into her book]
 * Susie Salmon: Stupid books. I don't even read them... I- I...
 * Ray Singh: Susie... what are you doing on Saturday?
 * Susie Salmon: [stands up in a loss for words] Are you really from England?
 * Ray Singh: [smiles] Yes. You are beautiful, Susie Salmon.


 * [last lines]
 * Susie: [voiceover] When my mother came to my room, I realized that all this time, I had been waiting for her. I had been waiting so long, I was afraid she wouldn't come.
 * Abigail: [whispering] I love you, Susie.
 * Susie: [voiceover] Nobody notices when we leave. I mean, the moment when we really choose to go. At best you might feel, a whisper or the wave of a whisper, undulating down. My name is Salmon, like the fish. First name: Susie. I was 14 years old, when I was murdered on December 6, 1973. I was here for a moment, and then I was gone. I wish you all, a long, happy life.

Taglines

 * The story of a life and everything that came after...

Cast

 * Saoirse Ronan - Susie Salmon
 * Mark Wahlberg - Jack Salmon
 * Rachel Weisz - Abigail Salmon
 * Rose McIver - Lindsey Salmon
 * Stanley Tucci - George Harvey
 * Susan Sarandon - Grandma Lynn
 * Michael Imperioli - Detective Len Fenerman
 * Christian Thomas Ashdale -Buckley Salmon
 * Reece Ritchie - Ray Singh
 * Charlie Saxton - Ronald Drake
 * Amanda Michalka - Clarissa
 * Jake Abel - Brian Nelson
 * Carolyn Dando - Ruth Connors