In Jackson's simplified, sweetened, and CGI-besotted telling, "The Lovely Bones" is a sad-but-hopeful, dramatic-but-gentle fairy tale intentionally made less upsetting for teens. (There's no indication that Susie gets raped, as she does in the novel, and her murder occurs off screen.) "Atonement's" terrific Ronan, with her astonishing glacier-blue eyes, watches from a scenic afterlife as her father (Mark Wahlberg), mother (Rachel Weisz), younger siblings, and selected friends simultaneously heal from their loss and search for her killer.

CNN: Review: 'The Lovely Bones'

Next up was Melissa Leo, winner of Best Supporting Actress for The Fighter for playing mother to Christian Bale (winner Best Supporting Actor) and Mark Wahlberg.

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Mother-in-law Jane though doesn't blame Mark.

BBC: Programme transcript

Mark Bingham's call from the plane's air phone was to his mother.

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Officers found the bodies of 37-year-old Mark Tyler and a woman, thought to be his 79-year-old mother Maureen, in Pitsea View Road in Crays Hill on Monday.

BBC: Mark Tyler shot mother Maureen before himself, police say

The mother of murdered teenager Stephen Lawrence has said her "pain is raw", at a memorial service to mark the 20th anniversary of her son's death.

BBC: Stephen Lawrence 20th anniversary memorial service held