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.

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.

Alice Sebold publicly apologized to Anthony Broadwater more than a week after he was cleared of rape charges Alice Sebold, New York Times best-selling author of The Lovely Bones, is finally ...

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 ...

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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 ...

Especially when "The Lovely Bones" concentrates on the tale's gripping ... where he tries to justify his existence -- and falls for a too-good-to-be-true fellow guest (Meryl Streep).

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 ...

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.