Centers 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.
A 14-year-old girl in suburban 1970's Pennsylvania is murdered by her neighbor. She tells the story from the place between Heaven and Earth, showing the lives of the people around her and how they have changed all while attempting to get someone to find her lost body.
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The end credits take up 15 minutes of the film's running time.
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Goofs
Revealing mistakes:
The safe in which Susie's corpse is hidden obviously weighs way too much for a single person to move, yet the killer somehow manages to move it out of his basement and into his car without anyone's help and within little time.
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Quotes
[first lines]
Susie Salmon:
[voiceover]
I remember being really small; too small to see over the edge of a table. There was a snow globe, and I remember the penguin who lived inside the globe. He was all alone in there, and I worried for him. See more »