Before The Lord of the Rings , Peter Jackson had some experience in the world of fantasy. In the early ‘90s, the director gave Kate Winslet and Melanie Lynskey their feature film debut in Heavenly Creatures , a film about two teen girls who brutally killed one of their mothers. It was a true story and was populated with fantastical elements borne from the minds of the girls. This would be a precursor to The Lord of the Rings , but the filmmaker didn’t stop there. One of his most beautiful films came out in 2009, starring the up-and-coming Saoirse Ronan .

The Lovely Bones was adapted from the novel of the same name, inspired by author Alice Sebold’ s book, which was a reaction to her personal experience with sexual assault . Though the subject matter wa

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