Based on Alice Sebold’s critically acclaimed and best-selling novel, filmmaker Peter Jackson (LOTR) has made a fantastically beautiful, intelligently complex and memorably suspenseful film. Saoirse Ronan (Atonement) stars as a teenaged girl in 1973 suburban Philadelphia, murdered by her unsuspected neighbor (Stanley Tucci), who remains in purgatory to watch over her family and friends and try to help them heal their grief from the afterlife, even as her disappearance goes unsolved and her spirit guides advise her to let go. *ONE OSCAR NOM: Best Supporting Actor.