Harvey's meticulous depravity and Jack's ferocious determination to sleuth his daughter's fate.
This engrossing, nearly enthralling movie straddles multiple worlds as well: Susie's bright innocence, Mr. It's a fantasyland of penguin topiary and gigantic ice-sculpture ships, where fields turn into soggy marshes and autumn becomes winter in a flash of fallen leaves. The girl, who vanished late one afternoon and is presumed to have been kidnapped or killed, speaks to us from the in-between a mostly Edenic halfway house for the recently deceased, a bridge between life and a hoped-for heaven. 6, 1973," Susie narrates in this creepy, dreamy film of Alice Sebold's best seller, directed and co-written by The Lord of the Rings' Peter Jackson. "I was 14 years old when I was murdered, on Dec. And in a nearby cornfield, he's created an underground rec room, filled with comic books and figurines and Cokes a kind of clubhouse where he'd like to bring the local kids. He has constructed a dollhouse, pristine and perfectly appointed but untenanted. Across the pleasant suburban street in Norristown, Pa., another man, George Harvey ( Stanley Tucci), is busy with his own hobbies. "If you start something," he tells Susie as he's completing one model, "you don't give up till you've finished it." He glances up, seemingly referring to the ship but staring right at Susie, and adds, "That is a thing of beauty."Īt that sweet moment, Jack doesn't realize he won't have much longer to stare proudly at her.
Jack Salmon (Mark Wahlberg) is a family man and a hobbyist he adores his wife and kids, especially Susie ( Saoirse Ronan), his eldest he also loves to build miniature ships and deftly slip them into bottles. With Saoirse Ronan, Stanley Tucci, Mark Wahlberg and Rachel Weisz
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