The Lovely Bones is a 2009 supernatural drama film directed by Peter Jackson and written by Jackson, Fran Walsh and Philippa Boyens, based on the 2002 novel by Alice Sebold. It stars Mark Wahlberg, Rachel Weisz, Susan Sarandon, Stanley Tucci, Michael Imperioli, and Saoirse Ronan. Ronan plays a teenager who watches her family from heaven after she is murdered. A co-production between the United States, the United Kingdom, and New Zealand, The Lovely Bones was produced by Carolynne Cunningham, Walsh, Jackson, and Aimee Peyronnet, with Steven Spielberg, Tessa Ross, Ken Kamins, and James Wilson as executive producers.