Hearts in Atlantis (film)
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| Directed by | Scott Hicks |
| Produced by | Kerry Heysen |
| Written by | William Goldman |
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Hearts in Atlantis by Stephen King |
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| Music by | Mychael Danna |
| Cinematography | Piotr Sobociński |
| Edited by | Pip Karmel |
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| Distributed by | Warner Bros. Pictures |
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101 minutes |
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| Language | English |
| Budget | $31 million |
| Box office | $30.9 million |
Hearts in Atlantis is a 2001 American-Australian mystery drama thriller film directed by Scott Hicks and starring Anthony Hopkins. It is loosely adapted from Stephen King's Dark Tower tie-in, Low Men in Yellow Coats, a novella in the collection Hearts in Atlantis after which the film was named.
The film is dedicated to cinematographer Piotr Sobociński, who died of a heart attack a few months before the release.
Hearts in Atlantis tells the story of Robert "Bobby" Garfield, a middle-aged man recollecting his past, in particular the summer when he was eleven years old. During that summer, he and his two friends, Carol Gerber and John "Sully" Sullivan, experienced many things together, the most mysterious of which was meeting an older gentleman named Ted Brautigan.
Bobby lives with his single mother, the self-centered Liz Garfield, who takes in Brautigan as a boarder. Ted takes the lonely Bobby under his wing, while his mother is busy with her job - including entertaining her boss as a way of paying off debt supposedly left by Bobby's late father. The two form a paternal father-son bond, and it slowly becomes evident that Ted has some psychic and telekinetic powers. These same powers are the reason that Brautigan has come to this sleepy town. In due course Ted entrusts Bobby with the knowledge that he has escaped the grasp of the "Low Men", strange people who would stop at nothing to get him back in their control.
After reading Bobby's mind and realizing that the boy dreams of owning a bicycle; Ted kindly offers Bobby $1 a week in exchange for his reading a newspaper out aloud. Bobby quickly figures out that Ted has some other purpose in mind. Mysteriously, Ted asks Bobby to keep an eye on the neighborhood looking for any signs of the "low men", like announcements about missing pets. Bobby sees one, but doesn't tell Ted, afraid to lose his new friend.
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