Watch The Lovely Bones Online Free – The Lovely Bones is a 2009 film directed by Peter Jackson. The Lovely Bones is a film adaptation of the award-winning and best-selling 2002 novel of the same name by Alice Sebold. The film stars Saoirse Ronan in the lead role as protagonist Susie Salmon, along with Mark Wahlberg and Rachel Weisz, as her parents Jack and Abigail Salmon respectively, in supporting roles.