The Lovely Bones

From beyond death, a young girl contemplates revenge against her killer while yearning for the family she left behind to heal. Adapting Alice Sebold's bestseller, Academy Award winner Peter Jackson brings together a sterling cast, including Mark Wahlberg,Rachel Weisz, Stanley Tucci - in an Oscar nominated role - and the astonishing Saoirse Ronan as Susie, who's abducted and murdered by her neighbor, played by Tucci. In the crime's aftermath, Ronan observes from above, weighing her next move, as Wahlbergand Weisz's marriage begins to fall apart and Tucci prepares to continue his killing spree. Jackson transforms difficult material into riveting cinema. (2009)