The Lovely Bones

When Susan meets Ray and opens her locker we see the imprint "Fairfax Public Schools.

" Later in the movie she identifies her location as Norristown Pennsylvania.

Later when George Harvey is looking at a scrapbook there are numerous references to Fairfax Virginia printed in the newspaper articles.

When Lindsey is sneaking around in George Harvey's house, she is wearing an old style of Nike running shoes that were introduced in the 1980s.

But the events in this movie were supposed to have taken place in the early to mid 1970s.

George Harvey is shown looking at newspaper articles including one about Lindsey's graduation in the Class of '77 / '78.

Subsequent to this scene, Jack is assaulted by Brian in the corn field.

Brian was in at least the same school year as Susie who is older than Lindsey yet the newspaper article Lindsey subsequently finds when breaking into Harvey's home says Brian was a senior at the time of the assault.

Also, Lindsey is shown running with a school team prior to breaking in when, according the previous article, she would have graduated already.

- PLOTJack starts developing Susie's 24 rolls of film at the rate of one per month about 6 months after her death.

However, according to the article in Harvey's scrapbook, it is at least 4.

5 years after Susie's death when Jack collects the final roll.

Susie says, "I was murdered on the 6th of December 1973.

" The 6th of December was a Thursday in 1973.

When the detectives go to question George Harvey, they ask him where he was last Wednesday.

His whereabouts aren't important on that day because Susie was murdered on a Thursday.

When Susie is driving the family's Mustang to the hospital, the right front tire is missing the hubcap before it actually shows the hubcap detach from the wheel a few moments later.

Grandfather clock shown in scenes is made by Sansui, who weren't making clocks in 1977.

When Jack Salmon in lying in the hospital bed we see a ventilator operating, yet Jack is not intubated and is in fact only wearing a simple free flow O2 mask.

Then ventilator would not operate without positive pressure to act against.

When Abigail Salmon returns home from California her hair is cut short but the next scene she is in she has long hair again.

The final scene Abigail Salmon is in, her hair is cut short again.

In one scene where Susie is talking to Holly from her gazebo, Holly's hair is in pigtails, and changes positions on her shoulders each time between shots.

In Susie's flashback, you see Mr Harvey dragging her cut up body into the safe with all his clothes on.

His clothes were clean and contained no blood on it, yet we saw Susie watching him clean up all the blood and mud in his bathroom after her death.

He is then seen getting rid of or cleaning the dirty clothes The day that Susie is murdered is said as being December 6th, a Wednesday.

In 1973, December 6th was a Thursday.

The family is watching "The Partridge Family" and it is light outside.

"The Partridge Family" was broadcast on Saturday nights at 8:00 Eastern (7:00 Central Time) and in December well after sunset.

The first time Mr.

Harvey makes the sketch of the underground room, the dimensions are 6'x6".

This is corrected when we see the sketch later on.

When Abigail and Richard are in bed, we see that Abigail is reading Exile and the Kingdom by Albert Camus.

As Richard begins to kiss her, she is seen reaching toward the nightstand to place the book on top of a pile of other books, including Siddhartha by Herman Hesse.

In doing so, she accidentally knocks both books to the floor, but in the next shot, as she reaches over to turn the lamp off, Siddhartha has reappeared on top of the pile of books on the nightstand.

George pulls the house figure from Susie's charm bracelet right before he throws it into the water.

In the next dream scene with Susie the bracelet falls in the water but still has the house figure.

Vietnamese immigration was limited to families of servicemen prior to 1975, however, there are almost no details given about Holly's character; there is evidence to contradict that she had a serviceman parent as she does not have an Anglo family name.

When Lindsey breaks into George's house the grandfather clock's time goes backwards.

At DVD time stamp 1:40:57 the clock shows 3:49:52 and at DVD time stamp 1:43:11 the clock shows 3:49:19.

When Lindsey breaks into Mr.

Harvey's basement through the window she falls on to newspapers and they drop to the floor only to have them disappear in the next scene.

In Susie's photo album that her father flips through, there is a picture of a Smurf figurine at the top of the right page.

While Smurf figures were around in the 70s, that particular Smurf (a singing "rocker" Smurf with a microphone) wasn't released until the late 1990s.

After Jack has been beaten up by Brian in the cornfield we see that several more buttons on his shirt have come unbuttoned but in the next scene where he is being rushed through the hospital, only the top button of his shirt is unbuttoned.

Susie is killed the 6th of December.

In Pennsylvania, by December there would be little to no foliage left on the trees by then, yet when the detectives go from home to home, you see full trees and some with autumn leaves-more like a day from early October.

During the final scene as the sister is chased out of the house you can clearly see that is a fall day.

The next scene (after the mother returns) you can see snow falling as the cops arrive.

The scene after that shows a fall day while the safe is being dumped During one scene Jack is holding the ship-in-a-bottle that he and Susie made together near the beginning of a movie.

In a subsequent shot he is shown busting the bottle (and many other bottles) against the desk.

However, in a later shot he is shown holding the same bottle as he shrinks to the floor crying.

Grandma Lynn drives Lindsey by Mr.

Harvey's house and there is snow covering the ground.

Next scene Lindsey is jogging by with her teammates and gets a cramp just before breaking into Mr.

Harvey's house, there isn't any snow on the ground, just leaves.

Then next scene she shows the scrapbook/evidence to Grandma Lynn and when the police go to Mr.

Harvey's house there is snow covering the ground again.

In the mall scene there is a "First Act" drum set in the background scenery.

First Act musical instruments did not begin until 1995.

Just for the record, there is also a Fairfax HS in Los Angeles, California, which would make the Vacaville reference make more sense.

That still leaves the question of the changing leaves and snow on the ground, but Fairfax VA is not the only town by that name with a high school.

The safe in which Susie's corpse is hidden obviously weighs way too much for a single person to move, yet the killer somehow manages to move it out of his basement and into his car without anyone's help and within little time.

When George Harvey is looking at the scrapbook he has on Lindsey Salmon the first article refers to Lindsey receiving a soccer award on Saturday the 9th of May.

The 9th of May occurred on a Saturday in 1970 and 1981 which is incorrect in the context of the film.

Furthermore, if one closely examines each of the supposedly different articles they each contain the same exactly phrased paragraphs though in different arrangements, sometimes very incongruously (such as an article about her sister's soccer award containing exactly the same paragraph about a helicopter search for her missing sister as in a previous unrelated article).

By middle June 1973, _"The Partridge Family" (1970)_ (qv) was seen on Saturday nights at 8PM.

The 8:30PM Friday night time slot only lasted from 25 September 1970 until 8 June 1973.

When Lindsey breaks into Mr.

Harvey's basement, she knocks a stack of bundled newspapers to the floor.

While the stacks are not seen in the close shot on the broken glass when Mr.

Harvey checks the basement, the stacks of bundled newspapers are shown in the lower left corner of the screen in the next shot of the basement floor which is a wider view.

The Lovely Bones (2009): Dir: Peter Jackson / Cast: Saoirse Ronan, Mark Wahlberg, Rachel Weisz, Stanley Tucci, Susan Sarandon: Bizarre drama thriller filled with strange images of enticing beauty. It regards the young innocence of Saoirse Ronan whose character is murdered and her soul is caught within a warped view of Heaven overlooking her grieving parents and the murderer who got away.

It's rare that I dislike a movie so much that I could easily get up 40 minutes into it and walk away without a remote care of how it ends. Well, I should have trusted my judgment and done just that.

Peter Jackson's dreamlike adaptation of The Lovely Bones gets unfairly beat down way too much. While I will concede that, having never read the book myself, I've heard it differs considerably in story, I view the film on a standalone level.

A 14-year-old teenage girl was murdered. She knows the murderer.

Just watched this movie. I found the plot intreaging, the cast fits perfectly well in this film.

Far too many essential parts of the original story is left out of this movie, including character development and important order of events which seem to have often been reversed here or missed out completely. Too much time focused on CGI effects rather than fitting in crucial parts of the plot.

I don't know what I was expecting but it wasn't this movie.Feel good show about a murdered child.

Good, but could have been great. Started off well - the family life was sketched beautifully.

A very unconventional movie that crosses many genres (murder/suspense/thriller/drama/fantasy), defies normal expectations and is an intense emotional experience. Right from the outset you are informed of when the lead character will be murdered and who her killer is but you are still kept on the edge of your seat and surprised by later revelations.