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• The Lovely Bones | DVD | (28/06/2010) from £5.41   |  Saving you £14.58 (269.50%)   |  RRP £19.99

  "The Lovely Bones" focuses on a young girl who has been murdered and watches over her family - and her killer - from heaven. She must weigh her desire for vengeance against her desire for her family to heal.

• The Lovely Bones | Blu Ray | (28/06/2010) from £20.00   |  Saving you £6.99 (25.90%)   |  RRP £26.99

  Director Peter Jackson takes a personal, risky leap in his direction of the film version of Alice Sebold's bestselling novel The Lovely Bones. Yet the leap pays off, in emotional depth and riveting visuals that transport the viewer to other worlds--even ones the viewer may not want to visit. The Lovely Bones is lofted by its star-making performance by the young Saoirse Ronan (Atonement), who plays Susie Salmon, the 14-year-old girl who is murdered early in the film, and who narrates the action from her "in-between place" after dying but before going to heaven. Ronan makes Susie as earthy and awkward as any young teen, yet her presence, and her gorgeous pale eyes, remind viewers that she's otherworldly too. The Lovely Bones takes some big departures from the book, as many critics have pointed out, but it works well on its own merits. The drama involves how (even whether) Susie's family will recover after her ghastly murder, and what happens to her killer and the futile-seeming search for justice and closure. The entire cast is stellar, including Mark Wahlberg and Rachel Weisz as Susie's nearly destroyed parents; the composed young New Zealand actress Rose McIver, who plays Susie's younger sister, whom Susie watches grow up to be the young woman that Susie will never get to be; and Susan Sarandon, the boozy, wisecracking grandmother who may or may not be able to help keep the family from splintering into a million pieces. The other true standout is Stanley Tucci, almost unrecognisable as the quiet, creepy neighbour who kills Susie, obsessing over every detail and perhaps having left a whole trail of gruesome murders in his shambling wake. Jackson's deft direction keeps the mourning humans moving along believably, numbly, and gives breathtaking life to the afterlife, in scenes of fantasy and dread that recall his Heavenly Creatures. --A.T. Hurley

• Revolutionary Road / Lovely Bones | DVD | (30/05/2011) from £5.98   |  Saving you £7.01 (117.22%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Revolutionary Road: Based on a novel by Richard Yates and directed by Sam Mendes Revolutionary Road stars Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslett as Frank and April Wheeler; a young couple living in a Connecticut suburb during the mid-1950s who struggle to come to terms with their personal problems while trying to raise their two children. The Lovely Bones: When 14-year-old Susie Salmon was murdered she left her unfinished life behind. But now from her place in a strange but beautiful in-between world she must help her father catch her killer and protect her family before she can finally move on. Filled with thrilling suspense hope and the redeeming power of love it's one of the best films of the year!

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  "The Lovely Bones" focuses on a young girl who has been murdered and watches over her family - and her killer - from heaven. She must weigh her desire for vengeance against her desire for her family to heal.