In 1973, Susie Salmon (Ronan) is raped and murdered by a neighbor, George Harvey, a serial killer of young girls and women. She finds herself in Heaven, observing her family as they grieve for her. She also watches her killer who, having covered his tracks successfully, is preparing to murder again. Susie struggles to balance her desire for vengeance on Harvey and her desire to have her family recover from their loss.
Starring:
Saoirse Ronan, Rachel Weisz, Mark Wahlberg, Stanley Tucci, Susan Sarandon, Rose McIver, Michael Imperioli, Reece Ritchie, Charlie Saxton, Carolyn Dando, and Amanda Michalka.
Directed by Peter Jackson.
While I have never read the novel, I have heard very good things about it. I'm genuinely interested in this.
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This book is very, very good.
i'm not as excited about a movie, though. it could be pulled off, it's just that the themes the book touches on have to be converted perfectly.
yes, a girl is raped and killed at the beginning. but the filmmakers are going to have to make sure that the focus is on the perceptions of Susie looking down on her murderer and her family.
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Than's what I've been hearing for some time - that it's a miss. This was supposed to have been released last winter. I think Jackson & company have been trying to savalge it for a year now. They, and the studio seem reluctant, even embarrased, to release it.
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Well, I loved it. It really touched me, as did the book when I read it. I don't know that the movie was completely faithful to the book or whether it did complete justice to it because it's been a few years since I read the book, but I was moved to tears several times and felt like my heart was breaking. Saoirse Ronan is absolutely phenomenal in the role of Susie Salmon.
The film remains a mystery -- not a mystery as in who committed the crime, but a mystery in its intended theme and why that theme didn't unite the film at all.
I read the book a few years back as well and loved it. I was excited that they made it into a movie, and that Mark Walhburg -one of my favorite actors- was playing Jack.
I havent gotten around to seeing the movie yet though. I've gotten many mixed reviews.
Watched it. Was ok. Stanley Tucci was awesome. Not much else i can say about t, bar the fact that the whole "pastel coloured quirky heaven" thing has been done before, and been done MUCH better imo.
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