PostHeaderIcon The Lovely Bones **

Is it worth $10? No

After being brutally murdered (which we thankfully don’t see), 14 year-old Susie (Saoirse Ronan) watches over her family from the “in-between” in this adaptation of the acclaimed Alice Sebold novel. Sadly, she mostly sees her family fall apart: Her father (Mark Wahlberg) becomes obsessed with finding her murderer, her mother (Rachel Weisz) leaves town, and her flaky grandmother (Susan Sarandon) comes to take care of her sister (Rose McIver). The performances are good – particularly Stanley Tucci as the creepy murderer – but director Peter Jackson’s ("King Kong") film lumbers along too slowly, and the drama clearly needs more urgency to be effective. This is yet another example of a great book being poorly adapted.

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