THE LOVELY BONES

“No Animals Were Harmed”®

After a young girl is murdered, she spends time in a sort of purgatory, watching her loved ones try to find her killer and bring justice to the family.

Featured Animal Action
Throughout the film, the Salmon family has a golden retriever, which is seen performing such mild action as sitting, standing, being  petted and walking or running on- and off- leash. For all of these scenes, trainers used hand signals and verbal commands to cue the mild action, which the trained dog was accustomed to performing. A few other dogs are seen in Susie’s (Saoirse Ronan) heaven-like world, and they were also well-trained dogs cued by trainers.


The butterflies in the film were computer-generated imagery, as were the birds that transformed into and from tree leaves. The birds in the sky were filmed in their natural habitat.


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