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Below is an incomplete portion from the article The Lovely Bones, saved here until I have time to make it coherent again after trying to improve it.

Plot
In 1973, Susie Salmon (Saoirse Ronan), a fourteen-year-old girl living in Norristown, Pennsylvania, dreams on one day growing up to become a famous photographer. On December 6, Susie gets into trouble because her parents, Jack and Abigail Salmon (Mark Wahlburg, Rachel Weisz), used up all of her rolls of camera film. Angry at her parents, Susie walks to school with her younger sister, Lindsey (Rose McIver), but only before Abigail forces Susie to wear her stocking hat due to the cold weather. After school, Ray Singh (Reece Ritchie), a boy Susie has had a crush on, approaches Susie at her locker and slips a note into her textbook without her knowing. Ray asks Susie out for Saturday and attempts to kiss her, but they are cut short by Ruth Conners (Carolyn Dando) being scolded by a teacher for drawing a picture of a nude woman.

As Susie is walking home from school, Ray's note slips out of her book and begins to blow away in the wind. Susie chases after the paper through the cornfield, but it eventually flies away as she meets with George Harvey (Stanley Tucci), her neighbor whose profession is building doll houses. Harvey tells Susie he is in the field because he just recently built an underground den for the kids in the neighborhood and would like her to test it. Susie declines at first stating she must be home for supper, but Harvey insists until Susie accepts. Once inside, Harvey offers Susie a bottle of Coca-Cola as he shows her around and doesn't allow her to leave. Susie becomes uncomfortable with Harvey and she attempts an escape by punching Harvey then running out of the den back into the field, passing Ruth along the way.

Meanwhile, the Salmon family begins to become worried that Susie hasn't returned home yet. Jack goes into town to look for Susie, showing a picture of her to random people on the streets and askes if they've seen her. Susie makes it into town and sees her father, but he does not notice her. Susie instead runs home, but discovers it abandoned. As she makes her way into the bathroom, she finds blood everywhere and Harvey rinsing himself off in the bathtub, revealing that Susie never made it out of the den alive and that Harvey had murdered her.

Police are then called in to investigate Susie's disappearance. Detective Len Fenerman (Michael Imperioli) finds Susie's hat with traces of her blood on it and confirms to the Salmons that Susie has been killed. In response, Jack develops all of Susie's pictures and becomes suspicious of various neighbors, including Harvey. Lindsey comes to agree with her father on his suspicions, but their casework stresses Abigail to the point where her mother, Grandma Lynn (Susan Sarandon), moves into their home to look after the family. However, Abigail eventually leaves the family for California. Meanwhile, Susie comes to better terms with her death with the help of Holly (Nikki SooHoo), a girl she has met in heaven. Holly tells Susie that she must move on from watching her family on Earth, but Susie resists in order to watch over and help her family find peace. Susie also learns about Harvey's past victims, which includes Holly, and that Susie's body is being kept in a safe in Harvey's basement.

The night after the police tell the Salmon's all leads have been exhausted, and are dropping the investigation, Jack is in his study looking out the window when he sees a flashlight in the cornfield. Believing it to be Harvey trying to destroy evidence, he leaves the house with a baseball bat to confront him. However, it is Susie's friend, Clarissa, with her boyfriend, Brian, looking for a place to make out. Jack and Brain begin to scuffle until Jack is struck by the bat injuring his leg severely. Jack is then hospitalized after undergoing surgery for his battered knee, which prompts Susie to continue her father's investigation. During a track run for school, Lindsey breaks into Harvey's house looking for evidence. She discovers a notebook hidden underneath his bedroom floorboard with sketches of the den in the field along with a clip of Susie's hair. Harvey returns home and catches Lindsy in his house, but she manages to escape from the window. Lindsey runs back home to discover that Abigail has returned, due to Jack's injuries, and hands Harvey's notebook to Grandma Lynn. In fear of being caught, Harvey quickly prepares to leave Norristown, packing a few belongings including the safe.

Susie's heaven begins to expand into a larger heaven and is greeted by all Harvey's victims. Holly offers Susie to enter with them, but Susie declines saying she has one more thing left to do. Susie returns to Earth and enters the body of Ruth, who is at the town's sinkhole with Ray watching Harvey dispose of the safe, causing her to faint. Ray rushes to Ruth's aid only to discover that she has become Susie. They share a passionate kiss with each other, finally completing Susie's last wish in life before she ascends to heaven.

Sometime later during the winter, Harvey meets young woman outside a diner and attempts to coax her into his car, but she rebuffs him. Suddenly, a large icicle falls from an overhead branch and hits Harvey on the shoulder, causing him to slip and fall off the cliff, killing him. Susie watches as Lindsey and her boyfriend Samuel Heckler have become married and that she has become pregnant. The film closes with Susie wishing everyone "a long and happy life".