The Lovely Bones
On December 6, 1973 in Norristown, Pennsylvania, a suburb of Philadelphia, Susie Salmon takes a shortcut home from her school.
She is approached by a neighbor, George Harvey, a man in his mid-40s who lives alone and builds dollhouses for a living.
He persuades her to enter an underground den he has recently built nearby. He claims that he built it for the kids in the neighborhood.
Once she enters, he rapes and then murders her, dismembering her body and putting it in a safe.
Susie's spirit flees toward her personal heaven.
The Salmon family is at first reluctant to accept that Susie has been killed, but then accepts this when Susie's hat was found.
The police talk to Harvey, find him odd but see no other reason to suspect him. Jack, Susie's father, becomes suspicious and later begins to
obsess about Harvey. Susie's sister Lindsey comes to share
these suspicions. Jack, consumed with guilt over not having
been able to protect his daughter, remains on extended leave from
work and increasingly isolates himself at home.
Meanwhile Buckley, the youngest child, tries to make sense of all this
as he starts school.
Opened: January 15, 2010
Runtime: 2 hours, 15 minutes
Rated: PG-13
On December 6, 1973 in Norristown, Pennsylvania, a suburb of Philadelphia, Susie Salmon takes a shortcut home from her school.
She is approached by a neighbor, George Harvey, a man in his mid-40s who lives alone and builds dollhouses for a living.
He persuades her to enter an underground den he has recently built nearby. He claims that he built it for the kids in the neighborhood.
Once she enters, he rapes and then murders her, dismembering her body and putting it in a safe.
Susie's spirit flees toward her personal heaven.
The Salmon family is at first reluctant to accept that Susie has been killed, but then accepts this when Susie's hat was found.
The police talk to Harvey, find him odd but see no other reason to suspect him. Jack, Susie's father, becomes suspicious and later begins to
obsess about Harvey. Susie's sister Lindsey comes to share
these suspicions. Jack, consumed with guilt over not having
been able to protect his daughter, remains on extended leave from
work and increasingly isolates himself at home.
Meanwhile Buckley, the youngest child, tries to make sense of all this
as he starts school.
Opened: January 15, 2010
Runtime: 2 hours, 15 minutes
Rated: PG-13
