In May 2000, Film4 Productions acquired feature film rights to Alice Sebold's novel The Lovely Bones, when it was a half-written manuscript. Producer Aimee Peyronnet had sought to attract studio interest to the manuscript, and an insider informed Film4's deputy head of production, Jim Wilson, of the project. The company attached Luc Besson and Peyronnet's production company Seaside to the project, two years before the novel's release. By February 2001, Lynne Ramsay was hired to direct and write the film adaptation of the novel. In July 2002, Channel 4 shut down Film4, causing Hollywood studios and producers to pursue acquisition of feature film rights to The Lovely Bones, which had spent multiple weeks at the top of the New York Times Best Seller list. The film adaptation, which had been estimated at a budget of $15 million, remained with Channel 4 under its newly developed inhouse film unit, with Ramsay still contracted to write and direct. By October 2002, Ramsay was writing the script with fellow screenwriter Liana Dognini, with filming planned for summer 2003. Author Sebold was invited by the producers to provide input on the project.
The Lovely Bones
(2009)8
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| Runtime | 2 hr 15 min |
| Budget | $65 000 000 |
| Premiere: World | $93 621 340 November 25, 2009 |
| USA | $44 114 232 |
| Other countries | $49 507 108 |
| Box Office – Budget | $28 621 340 |
| Premiere: USA | $44 114 232 December 11, 2009 |
| first day | $43 532 |
| theaters | 2638 |
| rollout | 386 days |
| Digital: World | May 1, 2012 |
| Parental Advisory | Frightening & Intense Scenes, Violence & Gore, ... |
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Centers on 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.Сast and Crew
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A very cool movie, from which you can take a lot of meaning. Everyone will find something for themselves in it. This presentation of a tragic story is very good. I advise everyone to watch this movie. It is filled with kindness, sadness, cruelty. 8.5/10 Translated to English
I watched the film many years ago, I really liked it and decided to leave a review, if you haven’t seen it, it’s a shame. Translated to English
I expected more emotion from the film, but it seems to be fine. To be fair, there is a very young Saoirse Ronan here, which is kind of pleasing, but not really for me. For me, the main star of the film is Stanley Tucci – without him, the film would be cheap… In short, it’s just average! Translated to English
I don’t even know how to write a review of a film on such a painful and heavy, like a concrete slab, topic. Translated to English
Sweet Ronan and unrecognizable Tucci, Andrew Lesnie’s signature camera sweeps, a combination of family drama, fantasy and horror, or the touching story of a 14-year-old girl Susie Salmon, who dies at the hands of a maniac pedophile and, having become a ghost, tries to accept her death Translated to English
It’s drawn out. The film is two hours long, but there isn’t much going on in it. Sometimes I even shouted to the screen: "Come on, hurry up." Saoirse gives a good performance, but the film didn’t touch me at all. Only my heartbroken mother made my eyes moisten a little. Translated to English
A good film, although a bit heavy, although it was obvious from the very beginning of the film. All teenagers should definitely watch it! I will definitely show my daughter what life is like, and that you need to be vigilant… Translated to English
Unusually bright and cloudy color frames of the film, like a girl’s dreams that are not destined to come true. Darkness and cold, laughter and joy, desires and hopes, love and inevitability. The film is like a silent cry, a sad and terrifying story: "I found a world in which I was not…" Translated to English