Hearts in Atlantis

2001 · Movie · 101 min. · United States

Drama 1960s

For middle-aged photographer Bobby Garfield (DAVID MORSE), the past comes kicking the door down one day when the death of a childhood friend beckons him back to the town of his upbringing, and the memory of his 11th summer in 1960. It's a summer of friendship shared with his closest pals, Carol (MIKA BOOREM) and Sully (WILL ROTHHAAR), and marked by the arrival of a new lodger, Ted Brautigan (ANTHONY HOPKINS) in the upstairs apartment of the boarding house where Bobby lives with his self-obsessed mother, Liz (HOPE DAVIS). Bobby's memory of his long-dead father is clouded by his mother's bitterness, but Ted fills the gap, offering him adult friendship and attention, and helping to open the boy's eyes to a bigger world. But Ted brings with him too a haunted past, and strange powers which both puzzle and alarm Bobby. When he offers Bobby a job, it's more than simply reading the paper to save the old man's failing eyes - Ted enlists the boy to help him avoid a powerful danger that's pursuing him.

Direction Scott Hicks

Cast Anthony Hopkins · Anton Yelchin · Hope Davis · Mika Boorem · David Morse · Alan Tudyk · Tom Bower · Celia Weston · Will Rothhaar · Adam LeFevre · Terry Beaver · Deirdre O'Connell · Brett Fleisher · Joshua Billings · Timothy Reifsnyder · Steve Little