Hearts in atlantis review roger ebert biography

2001 film by Scott Hicks

Hearts in Atlantis is a 2001 American mysterydrama film directed by Scott Hicks and starring Anthony Hopkins and Anton Yelchin.

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It is loosely adapted from Stephen King's Dark Tower tie-in "Low Men in Yellow Coats," a novella in the 1999 collection Hearts in Atlantis after which the film was named.

The film is dedicated to the memory of its cinematographer, Piotr Sobociński, who died of a heart attack a few months before its release.

Plot

Middle-aged photographer and businessman Robert "Bobby" Garfield returns to his old hometown upon learning that his best friend, decorated soldier John "Sully" Sullivan, has died in a traffic accident and begins recollecting his past when he visits his childhood home which has long since been abandoned.

During a summer in the 1960s, an eleven-year-old Bobby lives with his widowed mother, self-centered Liz Garfield, and has two friends, Carol Gerber and Sully. They experienced many