Hearts in Atlantis is a 2001 American/Australian drama thriller directed by Scott Hicks. It is loosely adapted from Stephen King's novella "Low Men in Yellow Coats", from his story collection Hearts in Atlantis. Hearts in Atlantis tells the story of Robert "Bobby" Garfield , a middle-aged man recollecting his past, in particular the summer when he was eleven years old . During that summer, he and his two friends, Carol Gerber and John "Sully" Sullivan , experienced many things together, the most mysterious of which was meeting an elderly drifter named Ted Brautigan . Bobby lives with his... single mother, the self-centered Liz Garfield , who takes in Brautigan as a boarder. Ted takes the lonely Bobby under his wing, while his mother is busy with her job - including entertaining her boss as a way of paying off debt supposedly left by Bobby's late father. The two form a father-son bond, and it slowly becomes clear that Ted has some psychic and telekinetic powers that rub off on the young boy.
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| Release date: | September 28, 2001 |
| Directed by: | Scott Hicks |
| Rated: |  |
| Runtime: | 101 Minutes |
| Producer: | Kerry Heysen |
| Editor: | Pip Karmel |
| Music by: | Mychael Danna |
| Cinematography: | Piotr Sobocinski |
| Screenplay by: | William Goldman |
| Estimated budget: | $31,000,000 |
| Adapted from: | Hearts in Atlantis |
| Genre: | Thriller |