From NetFlix:

When 14-year-old Susie Salmon (Saoirse Ronan) is murdered, she watches from above as her family deals with her tragic death — and as her killer prepares to strike again. Torn between vengeance and healing, Susie’s loved ones are forever changed. Mark Wahlberg and Rachel Weisz star in Peter Jackson’s adaptation of Alice Sebold’s riveting, best-selling novel; Susan Sarandon and Oscar nominee Stanley Tucci co-star.

Normally I can start a film one night and interrupt it and resume another night, but NOT with this film. The suspense is extremely well-done and at times very subtle (you watch someone try to replace a floorboard without being heard by the killer a floor below; the movement is excruciatingly slow). Acting is good and the story is heartbreaking and well structured. Certain scenes (e.g. abduction) could be difficult to watch.

I offer one reservation: Susie inhabits the state of existence between death and heaven. This “place” is a seemingly endless succession of sometimes beautiful, sometimes threatening, always imaginative scenes. But enough is enough. I became really tired of watching Susie tread through field after field.

Mark Wahlberg does a fine job as the grieving father. See him also in The Basketball Diaries (1995), The Departed (2006) , and We Own the Night (2007) .

Rachel Weisz plays the mother. See her also in Definitely, Maybe (2008), Enemy At The Gates (2001), and The Brothers Bloom (2008).

Stanley Tucci was a standout and I did not even recognize him because he has hair in this film. His role as the serial killer George Harvey was perfect and impressive.