The two strike up a conversation wherein Molly reveals that she is Carol's daughter and that Carol died in recent years. Returning to the present, Bobby turns to leave his old home wherein he meets a young girl named Molly. Before he leaves, Bobby and Carol say their goodbyes and share a final kiss. Liz finds a new job in Boston and moves the family there. Bobby is later confronted by Harry, but Bobby grabs the latter's baseball bat and beats him with it. As some form of closure, Ted yells to Bobby as he is being driven away that he would not have missed a moment "not for all the world", and later Bobby mirrors the same feelings. Ted is eventually captured with the help of a tip from Liz. She is confronted by Ted's ability to tell her the truth about what she has been through, and how her behavior is affecting her relationship with her son, providing another reason that Ted must leave. However, at one point, Harry harasses and injures Carol, and when Ted manipulates her dislocated shoulder into place, Liz arrives, after being raped by her boss, and mistakenly believes that Ted is a child molester. Bobby sees one, but does not tell Ted, afraid to lose his new friend.īobby, Carol and John have frequent conflicts with the local town bully, Harry Doolin, whom Ted scares away by looking into his mind and finding out that his violence is used to cover up his secret cross-dressing. Mysteriously, Ted asks Bobby to keep an eye on the neighborhood looking for any signs of the "low men", like announcements about missing pets. Bobby quickly figures out that Ted has some other purpose in mind. In due course Ted explains that he has escaped the grasp of the "Low Men", strange people who would stop at nothing to get him back in their control.Īfter reading Bobby's mind and realizing that the boy dreams of owning a bicycle, Ted kindly offers Bobby $1 a week in exchange for his reading a newspaper out loud. The two form a father-son bond, and it slowly becomes evident that Ted has some psychic and telekinetic powers, which are the reason he has come to this sleepy town.
Ted takes the lonely Bobby under his wing, while his mother is busy with her job. They experienced many things together, the most mysterious of which was meeting an older gentleman named Ted Brautigan, whom Liz takes in as a boarder. 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. 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 an abandoned house where he used to live. The film is dedicated to cinematographer Piotr Sobociński, who died of a heart attack a few months before the release. 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. After his near-death experience, Chris realizes that everything happens for a reason and that each person has a purpose in life, even if it takes them a while to find out what it could be.īased on the inspirational true story of Leslie and Jorge Bacardi.Hearts in Atlantis is a 2001 American mystery drama film directed by Scott Hicks and starring Anthony Hopkins and Anton Yelchin. While playing basketball, Chris suddenly collapses on the court and is rushed to the hospital. While the two couples are seemingly not connected, fate brings them together when Jorge collapses, due to complications from a disease he’s had since childhood. Not long after, they meet again and fall instantly in love.ĭecades earlier, Cuban exile Jorge Bacardi (Adan Canto) meets flight attendant Leslie (Radha Mitchell) on a plane and they also fall for each other.
That is, until he accidentally bumps into Sam (Tiera Skovbye) on his way out of a lecture one day and is instantly smitten. College student Chris (Jacob Elordi) has always lived in the moment, but he’s never really felt like he had a purpose in life.
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