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Hearts in Atlantis

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Hearts in Atlantis (2001)

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Reviews Counted:29

Fresh:13

Rotten:16

Average Rating:5.4/10

Consensus: Hearts in Atlantis is well-acted and beautiful to look at, but the movie is nothing more than a mood piece.

Rated: PG-13 [See Full Rating] for violence and thematic elements

Runtime: 1 hr 41 mins

Genre: Dramas

Theatrical Release:Sep 28, 2001 Wide

Box Office: $23,604,382

Synopsis: "Sometimes when you're young, you have moments of such happiness, you think you're living in someplace magical, like Atlantis must have been; then we grow up and our hearts break into... "Sometimes when you're young, you have moments of such happiness, you think you're living in someplace magical, like Atlantis must have been; then we grow up and our hearts break into two." --Ted Brautigan 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. As the last summer of Bobby's childhood draws to a close, Ted gives him a new understanding of his father, and the possibilities of life and love, before events overtake them all. Ted's pursuers close in, forcing Bobby to find depths of courage and forgiveness he never imagined. And for the adult Bobby, revisiting his childhood home and the memories of a summer long gone, a chance encounter completes the circle of his journey back in time. -- © Warner Bros. [More]

Starring: Anthony Hopkins, Anton Yelchin, Hope Davis, David Morse

Starring: Anthony Hopkins, Anton Yelchin, Hope Davis, David Morse, Mika Boorem, Alan Tudyk, Tom Bower, Celia Weston, Adam LeFevre, Deirdre O'Connell, Timothy Reifsnyder, Will Rothhaar

Director: Scott Hicks

Director: Scott Hicks
Screenwriter: William Goldman
Producer: Kerry Heysen
Studio: Warner Bros.

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11/06/02
Jeff Strickler
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Minneapolis Star Tribune
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Hicks ... coats the film in a bogus idyllic mist that substitutes cheap sentiment for blunt truth.

Full Review Source: Rolling Stone | comment Comment
10/03/01
Peter Travers
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Rolling Stone
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The unblinking sympathy for kids struggling with evil and with the strange frequencies of prepubescent passion can, if your defenses are down, lay you out.

Full Review Source: Village Voice | comment Comment
10/02/01
Michael Atkinson
Michael Atkinson
Village Voice
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Hicks's film is magical, but its magic comes not from the inexplicable phenomena we most commonly associate with King, but from the charms of childhood.

Full Review Source: Washington Post | comment Comment
09/28/01
Michael O'Sullivan
Michael O'Sullivan
Washington Post
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A precious respite from the postmodern era and all that it entails.

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09/28/01
Rita Kempley
Rita Kempley
Washington Post
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Unabashedly sentimental, it's meant to touch our hearts in profound and important ways, but misses the mark by drawing too deeply from a pool of schmaltz.

Full Review Source: San Francisco Chronicle | comment Comment
09/28/01
Edward Guthmann
Edward Guthmann
San Francisco Chronicle
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The story's enchantment feels forced and coy, its mysteries tricked-up and flimsy.

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09/28/01
Gene Seymour
Gene Seymour
Newsday
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A fussy piece of schmaltz that makes you long for Stand By Me, a vastly superior coming-of-age tale from King's pen.

Full Review Source: New York Post | comment Comment
09/28/01
Lou Lumenick
Lou Lumenick
New York Post
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A sweet coming-of-age story set in the summer of 1960, akin in mood to [King's] Stand by Me.

Full Review Source: New York Observer | comment Comment
09/28/01
Rex Reed
Rex Reed
New York Observer
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Put simply, the movie drags.

Full Review Source: Houston Chronicle | comment Comment
09/28/01
Bruce Westbrook
Bruce Westbrook
Houston Chronicle
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All that early promise goes for naught when the picture approaches the final act, whereupon the various mysteries yield solutions that prove to be silly or sentimental or both.

Full Review Source: Globe and Mail | comment Comment
09/28/01
Rick Groen
Rick Groen
Globe and Mail
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The performances are all first-rate, reinforcing the promise Hicks showed in the beautifully acted Shine.

Full Review Source: Detroit Free Press | comment Comment
09/28/01
Terry Lawson
Terry Lawson
Detroit Free Press
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Going for transcendence, [Hicks] gives us lugubriousness.

Full Review Source: Denver Post | comment Comment
09/28/01
Steven Rosen
Steven Rosen
Denver Post
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A poignant and often beautifully acted film.

Full Review Source: Dallas Morning News | comment Comment
09/28/01
Philip Wuntch
Philip Wuntch
Dallas Morning News
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The acting is so good, you almost want to forgive the fact that they're not saying anything, and the film has no real point.

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09/28/01
Paul Clinton (CNN.com)
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A pungently evocative, beautifully burnished mood piece.

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09/28/01
Jay Carr
Jay Carr
Boston Globe
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All atmosphere and no action.

Full Review Source: Toronto Star | comment Comment
09/28/01
Peter Howell
Peter Howell
Toronto Star
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Rarely does a movie make you feel so warm and so uneasy at the same time.

Full Review Source: Chicago Sun-Times | comment Comment
09/28/01
Roger Ebert
Roger Ebert
Chicago Sun-Times
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A nostalgic fiasco so shameless it makes movies like Simon Birch and Frequency seem as austere as the work of Robert Bresson.

Full Review Source: New York Times | comment Comment
09/28/01
Stephen Holden
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