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Hearts in Atlantis

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Hearts in Atlantis (2001)

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Reviews Counted:133

Fresh:65

Rotten:68

Average Rating:5.7/10

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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Kit Bowen

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Todd McCarthy

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2/5

Rob Gonsalves

A movie that says we might as well pack it in as soon as we turn 18 is more bitter than bittersweet.

Full Review Source: | comment Comment | Sep., 17 2007 06:31 PM

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Emanuel Levy

What happened to the prodigious vitality of Scott Hicks (Shine): His third feature sugffers from the same stifling artistic treatment that his second did, and this one is based on stories by Stephen King!

Full Review Source: | comment Comment | Dec., 04 2006 05:32 AM

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Derek Adams

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Philip Martin

Hicks' film is a beautiful trifle, a neat trick of light and sound to coax empathy

Full Review Source: | comment Comment | Jan., 27 2005 12:00 PM

Arkansas Democrat-Gazette

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Jeffrey Overstreet

If good cinematographers are 'panning for gold' with their camera lens, Sobocinski has put his pan in the river and come back with a fortune.

Full Review Source: | comment Comment | Dec., 06 2004 05:12 PM

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Jordan Hiller

Hearts in Atlantis is a leap of faith with nothing on the other side.

Full Review Source: | comment Comment | Jul., 16 2004 09:50 AM

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Michael Szymanski

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Alexander Walker

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Full Review Source: | comment Comment | Dec., 15 2003 05:20 PM

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Brian Mckay

The film has a lot of nice little touches going for it, and while there are the obligatory moments of heartstring plucking underscored by the stir of violins, it never really overdoes things. The only problem is, it's just been so done already.

Full Review Source: | comment Comment | May., 12 2003 07:56 PM

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Harry Guerin

You'll still come away from Hearts in Atlantis wanting to read the book, but had Hicks and Goldman got it right, you would've run straight from the cinema to buy it.

Full Review Source: | comment Comment | Mar., 05 2003 05:52 AM

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John R. McEwen

While this film has the potential to be either a heartwarming coming-of-age story or a tense psychological thriller, it doesn't really achieve either goal.

Full Review Source: | comment Comment | Feb., 08 2003 08:37 AM

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Wesley Lovell

Hopkins continues to turn in one lackluster performance after another.

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Rebecca Murray

This movie invokes a sense of nostalgia and a yearning for those childhood friends who, as we grow older, may be forgotten but will never be replaced.

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