If you loved They Shall Not Grow Old, try The Lovely Bones

A bridge between a film you've already seen and one most people haven't. Here's what they share, and what the second one does that the first one doesn't.

What they share

Both films are directed by Peter Jackson, and they both carry the gut punch mood tag. If that's the register that drew you to They Shall Not Grow Old, the second film will land in a comparable space — through a different lens.

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What The Lovely Bones is

Murdered teen Susie Salmon lingers between life and afterlife observing her fractured family's slow fraying in 1970s Pennsylvania. The killer remains free even as the cops hit dead ends. A precocious ghost with unfinished business finally nudges a brother to stumble onto her hidden remains.

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