Hearts in Atlantis 2001 123movies

Watch: Hearts in Atlantis 2001 123movies, Full Movie Online – This is a gentle, innocent movie about the reflections of an aging man (David Morse), who returns to his home town after the death of his best friend. Memories of life at age eleven floods back as it was a magical time that changed his life. Three eleven-year-old children, Bobby Garfield (Anton Yelchin), Carol Gerber (Mika Boorem), and John “Sully” Sullivan (Will Rothhaar), share their lives. Carol and Bobby have a special affection for one another including sharing a kiss “by which all others will be measured.” Bobby lives with his mother, Liz (Hope Davis), a bitter, vain woman who looks for pleasures for herself without sharing much with her son. Into their lives comes a mysterious new boarder, Ted Brautigan (Sir Anthony Hopkins), who befriends the boy, but generates distrust from the mother. As time passes, the man and boy share confidences, and special powers are revealed. The man warns the boy to be on the lookout for the “Low Men in Yellow Coats” who are seeking him. The two share a summer’s adventures and come to love one another before the inevitable happens. A confrontation with a school bully also changes everyone..
Plot: A widowed mother and her son change when a mysterious stranger enters their lives.
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Ratings:

	6.9/10 Votes: 39,293
	49% | RottenTomatoes
	55/100 | MetaCritic
	N/A Votes: 429 Popularity: 16.591 | TMDB

Reviews:

A big, fat ‘wow’
For some, Stephen King is just a mere auteur of horror stories. If you look closer, you’ll see he is much more. Nearly all his stories are melancholic tales about the loss of childhood innocence. With a paranormal twist, but that really isn’t the most important. I even think that Hearts in Atlantis would have worked even better, if the whole paranormal thing would have been left out. The most interesting aspects of the story are Bobby Garfield and his relationship with his mother, girlfriend and Ted. Whenever Ted brought up the low-men, my personal interest curve got a bit of a dip, but hey it’s a Stephen King movie, I guess we’ll have to live with it.

As it is, Hearts in Atlantis remains a wonderful film. It’s the kind of film where the scenes in the present are filmed in gloomy blue and grey tones, and all the flashbacks get a golden sepia treatment. Sure it’s been done before, but rarely have the effects been of such a shattering beauty.

Anthony Hopkins, never shy of giving a bombastic performance, is remarkably soft-spoken in this one, though I doubt that he was really interested in this movie. The star of the show, however, is Anton Yelchin as Bobby Garfield. He looks like the young Elijah Wood, with the same angelic blue eyes, and he’s truly captivating. He even has genuine chemistry with the girl that plays his love interest. A big fat ‘wow’ is in order here, let’s hope he’ll get the chance to exploit his talents further.

It’s a shame this movie failed at the box-office, but then again so did The Shawshank Redemption. So let’s all rent/buy this wonderful film, and boost that IMDb score.

I gave this one a 9/10.

A breath of fresh air
Hearts in Atlantis is an interesting movie. For one, it is based upon a story contained within a book named “Hearts in Atlantis” by Stephen King. But the story is called “Low Men in Yellow Coats” and the story “Hearts in Atlantis” has absolutely no bearing on the movie at all.

It’s rather unfortunate actually, that the film makers couldn’t find some way to incorporate all five of King’s “Hearts in Atlantis” stories into the movie. But if they had to pick one – which they did, of course – “Low Men in Yellow Coats” is an excellent choice. And it makes for an excellent movie, but the book should be required reading.

Some of the complaints about the movie have been that the characters are not well developed. Perhaps they are, but as someone who’s read the book, my mind filled in any gaps, so I couldn’t say. In fact, knowing what was in the story did nothing but enrich this film. Because the movie was so close to the book, the background information supplied by King’s plot filled in all the places the movie could not or would not go.

One bad aspect of the movie version however, is the elimination of all supernatural elements. Instead of making Anthony Hopkins’ character a Breaker from the Dark Tower universe King has created, like Brautigan is in the book, he is a psychic sought by the FBI to root out communists (hey, this is 1960 after all). So the string is still intact: Of the more than 30 movies based on the work of Stephen King, not a single one even mentions the Dark Tower.

How unfortunate.

The movie itself is simply wonderful, especially after dealing with two weeks of absolute crap (The Musketeer and Glitter? Hmmm).

Anthony Hopkins has the pleasure of two Academy Award-worthy performances in 2001 (I don’t care, Hannibal was still an excellent movie). His performance in Hearts is as understated as Hannibal was… well… Hannibal. He keeps to himself, stays quiet, and when he talks, he is close to divine. Hopkins continues to prove why he is one of the best actors of all time.

Anton Yelchin is simply amazing as little Bobby Garfield. He is the second coming of Haley Joel Osment, if not better than he. The plot is good if not great – although with the book already in mind, it assuredly makes any potential holes disappear – and the character development is superb. And isn’t that a wonderful breath of fresh air after a summer’s worth of movies that were cool, and some were even good, but overall brainless and similar.

For that alone, I give it a 10, even if it is perhaps closer to an 8 or a 9.

10/10

Other Information:

Original Language en
Runtime 1 hr 41 min (101 min)
Budget 31000000
Revenue 24185781
Status Released
Rated PG-13
Genre Drama, Mystery
Director Scott Hicks
Writer Stephen King, William Goldman
Actors Anthony Hopkins, Anton Yelchin, Hope Davis
Country United States
Awards 2 wins & 8 nominations
Production Company N/A
Website N/A

Technical Information:

Sound Mix DTS, Dolby Digital, SDDS
Aspect Ratio 2.35 : 1
Camera Panavision Cameras and Lenses
Laboratory DuArt Film Laboratories Inc., New York, USA (processing), Technicolor, Hollywood (CA), USA (color) (prints)
Film Length 2,765 m (Sweden), 2,817 m (Spain)
Negative Format 35 mm (Kodak)
Cinematographic Process Super 35
Printed Film Format 35 mm (anamorphic) (Fuji), Digital (Texas Instruments DLP 1280 x 1024, 1.9 : 1 anamorphic)