A Stephen King tale with the merest hint of the supernatural, suspended in syrupy nostalgia for the guilelessness of a small-town American childhood of the late '50s and early '60s. Based on two stories from the
Hearts in Atlantis collection — "Low Men in Yellow Coats" and "Heavenly Shades of Night Are Falling" — this meditation on childhood's end revolves around 11-year-old Bobby Garfield (Anton Yelchin) and Ted Brautigan (Anthony Hopkins), the mysterious older man who moves in upstairs from Bobby and his mother, Liz (Hope Davis). Bobby has two close pals, Sully-John (Will Rothhaar) and pretty Carol Gerber (Mika Boorem) — who has "first kiss" w...
Released:
2001
Rated:
PG-13
Length:
97 mins