What did Mr Harvey do to Susie?

On December 6, 1973, he lures his 14-year-old neighbor Susie Salmon into an underground "clubhouse" he had built in the woods near his house, and rapes and murders her once she is in his power. He then dismembers her body, puts her remains in a safe and dumps them in a landfill.
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What did Mr Harvey do to Susie in Lovely Bones?

Mr. Harvey collapses the underground room where he raped and killed Susie. Then he puts her "body parts" (4.1) in a bag, which he puts in his garage, while he goes up for a shower. Susie will learn later that he killed other girls before her.
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Where did Mr Harvey put Susie's body?

Harvey puts the bag with Susie's body parts into a safe and dumps the safe into a sinkhole about eight miles from the Pennsylvania neighborhood. Afterwards, he walks around an industrial park. He finds Susie's charm bracelet in his pocket, and doesn't remember taking it off of her, or putting it in there.
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Who did Mr Harvey kill?

Mr. Harvey is a sexual predator, a rapist, a serial killer. He's the 36-year-old neighbor who rapes and murders Susie, within minutes of her own home. Although indispensable to the novel, his story is always secondary to the stories of Susie and her loved ones.
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How many people did Harvey Kill The Lovely Bones?

Harvey, as an adult, has killed upwards of six girls and women, preferring younger teens and small children. As he hides up and down the Northeast Corridor, being pursued all the while by police, Harvey occasionally returns to Norristown to check up on his old house and neighborhood.
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The Lovely Bones 2009- Susie Meets Mr Harvey



Why did he kill the girl in Lovely Bones?

Flora Hernandez - An 8-year-old girl in Delaware, whom he murdered in 1963. Harvey had only wanted to touch her, but he killed her when she screamed. He left her body to decompose in an old basement.
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Was Susie Salmon a real person?

Susie Salmon from The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold

Although no one would ever wish for Susie Salmon's character to be inspired by real events, it is based on a young girl's murder in Norristown, Pennsylvania in the 1970s.
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Do they find out who killed Susie in The Lovely Bones?

George Harvey, the Salmons' neighbor. A serial killer of young girls who has gone uncaught, he murders Susie. The Salmons gradually suspect him, and he eventually leaves Norristown to escape the investigation. He continues killing as he moves across the country.
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Was Lovely Bones a true story?

Yes — kind of. The afterlife storyline, in which Susie watches her family from purgatory, is not real. But the original author of the book, Alice Sebold, stated that the story was partially based on a real rape and murder of a young girl in Norristown, Pennsylvania, who was kidnapped from her parents in the 1970s.
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How did The Lovely Bones end?

The film ends with Harvey tumbling to an icy death in a ravine, but it's never stated whether or not he's connected to the other murders that Susie learns about in her afterlife. It's also unknown how wide the search for him had spread or how long he evaded the police.
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What does the bathtub scene mean in The Lovely Bones?

The Bathroom Scene

She watches her family fall apart, the grief that her family and her crush Ray Singh went through, and in the end how her family, despite the turmoil, was able to come together again.
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Who is George Harvey based on?

Stanley Tucci based his portrayal of George Harvey on serial killer Dennis Rader, the "BTK Killer". Despite being a last-minute replacement, Mark Wahlberg was always one of Peter Jackson's first choices for the leading role.
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Why is it called The Lovely Bones?

Susie is saying that a) she sees her loved ones and their stories as the bones of a body of earthly happiness, of life; and b) she can stop anxiously hovering over them, because they are OK.
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Is George Harvey a real person?

Like many real serial killers, Harvey, the fictional character in the 2002 bestseller "The Lovely Bones," lived a seemingly normal life among his neighbors, evading suspicion and cleverly eluding capture.
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What happens to Ray in The Lovely Bones?

The experience transforms him entirely, and though he returns to his life and his studies, he becomes a confirmed believer in the soul, the afterlife, and the power of desire to “break through” the well between worlds.
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Is George Harvey still alive?

George Harvey, Known As 'Crackhead Bob' On 'The Howard Stern Show,' Dead At Age 56. George Harvey, better known as “Crackhead Bob”, died at the age of 56 at his Texas home.
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How old was Saoirse Ronan in Lovely Bones?

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Irish actress Saoirse Ronan was only 13-years-old when she took the part of a murdered girl who watches over her grieving family in “The Lovely Bones.” But even at such a young age, she never once worried about playing a dead person.
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Is The Lovely Bones scary?

Although it mercifully spares us some of the more gruesome details found in the novel, it is much too frightening and disturbing for young teens or younger children.
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Was Ryan Gosling meant to be in The Lovely Bones?

When Ryan Gosling showed up for pre-production of "The Lovely Bones" with a 60-pound weight gain, director Peter Jackson decided to fire the star actor and recast the role. Jack Salmon was eventually played by Mark Wahlberg, and Gosling lost the weight before pursuing other projects.
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What year is The Lovely Bones set in?

In 1973, Susie Salmon (Saoirse Ronan) is a teenage girl with a promising future when she is brutally killed by her sex offender neighbor.
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What happens to Susie in Lovely Bones?

Suzanne 'Susie' Salmon is the main character in The Lovely Bones. She is murdered in the first chapter in the novel by Mr Harvey. In her Earthly life, she sees the mediocrity of junior high fading into the past, as she becomes the queen of high school.
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How old is Susie Salmon?

She's only fourteen when she's beaten, raped, and murdered by her neighbor, Mr. Harvey. Susie tells us her story from the afterworld in her own heaven. “My name was Salmon, like the fish; first name, Susie.
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Where was The Lovely Bones filmed?

Production began in October 2007 in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania and New Zealand. Shooting in parts of Delaware, Chester and Montgomery counties, including Hatfield, Ridley Township, Phoenixville, Royersford, Malvern and East Fallowfield, lasted a few weeks, and most of the studio shooting was done in New Zealand.
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Is The Lovely Bones on Netflix?

Watch The Lovely Bones | Netflix.
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