The Lovely Bones true story comes both from a real murder and the lived experience of author Alice Sebold, who wrote the 2002 novel that director Peter Jacksons supernatural drama is based on.

Based on a 1973 true story, Lovely Bones follows the fate of 14-year-old girl Susie, who becomes the victim to serial rapist and murderer George Harvey (Stanley Tucci, who earned an Academy Award ...

And yet, The Lovely Bones is surprisingly so-so. The PG-13 thriller, which opens Friday, stumbles on two fronts. (Spoiler alert: Minor plot points follow.) True to the novel, our heroine is dead ...

Sebold, whose 2002 bestseller “The Lovely Bones” was made into a feature directed ... what every great adaptation should, staying true to Alice’s memoir while imbuing it with the cinematic ...

There isn't a second that rings true — on any level ... was lucky because the last woman raped there was killed. The Lovely Bones can be taken as a fantasy of the death she didn't have.

There’s been a lot of talk lately about the need to reframe crime narratives (whether true-crime or fiction) around the victims rather than the perpetrators. The Lovely Bones now stands out as a ...

The film is based on Alice Sebold’s novel of the same name; but is it based, at all, on a true story? The Lovely Bones follows Susie, a murdered young girl who travels to purgatory after her death.