I remember browing through the book at the bookshop's bestseller's section and I remember being pretty thrilled that there would be a movie adapted from the book, and a movie directed by Peter Jackson no less.
The Slog Reviews: 8.5/10. A pretty comprehensive review of the movie can be found here. It was a pleasant surprise to find out that Rachel Weisz was also acting in this movie, given that I'd just watched Agora right before this dvd. However, she wasn't playing the lead character, an ethereal young actress named Saoirse Ronan was, because as you will learn from the review, the lead character was a young gal named Susie Salmon who was raped, murdered and dismembered by a neighbour at the age of 14. While in heaven, she watches over her family in the wake of her murder (the grief, the need to find the murderer, her mother fleeing to another state to escape the pain) and in the years that come after that when they move on with their lifes (her baby sister gets married and have a child). In the movie and in the book, her murderer doesn't get caught and that lends the movie and story a very realistic angle (no fairy-tale ending) - that in life, sometimes not all the bad guys get caught immediately or in the near future or even at all. There are people out there who do bad things and get away with it, and it seems grossly unfair but that's life for you.
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