What is the title of Peter Jackson’s 2009 film about a murdered teenage girl?
Answer
The Lovely Bones
The title of Peter Jackson’s 2009 film about a murdered teenage girl is The Lovely Bones.
The film adapts Alice Sebold’s 2002 novel and follows Susie Salmon, a fourteen-year-old girl who observes her family and the world after her murder. Saoirse Ronan played Susie, with Mark Wahlberg and Rachel Weisz portraying her parents.
Jackson combined a family drama and murder mystery with a stylized afterlife setting. The film’s visual world represents Susie’s changing emotional state rather than presenting a conventional religious description of the afterlife.
The Lovely Bones is sometimes confused with Heavenly Creatures, Jackson’s earlier film about the Parker–Hulme murder case. Heavenly Creatures is based on a real New Zealand crime, whereas The Lovely Bones is adapted from Sebold’s fictional novel.