The film tells the story of a mysterious man (Anthony Hopkins) who enlists the aid of a brilliant young boy (Anton Yelchin) to save his life. The two share a summer's adventures and come to love one another before the inevitable happens.
26 July 1976
2 June 1948, West Palm Beach, Florida, USA
3 January 1938, Denver, Colorado, USA
23 March 1964, Englewood, New Jersey, USA
1 January 1963, Portsmouth, Virginia, USA
18 August 1987, Tucson, Arizona, USA
6 June 1961, Arlington, Virginia, USA
19 November 1966, Charlottesville, Virginia, USA
31 December 1937, Margam, Port Talbot, West Glamorgan, Wales, UK
9 January 1985, Washington, District of Columbia, USA
11 October 1953, Hamilton, Massachusetts, USA
27 November 1971, London, England, UK
12 January 1987, New York City, New York, USA
7 May 1979, Charlottesville, Virginia, USA
December 24, 2010
Above average coming of age story.
September 28, 2001
Hicks's film is magical, but its magic comes not from the inexplicable phenomena we most commonly associate with King, but from the charms of childhood.
September 28, 2001
A precious respite from the postmodern era and all that it entails.
October 03, 2001
Hicks ... coats the film in a bogus idyllic mist that substitutes cheap sentiment for blunt truth.
September 28, 2001
Much of Hearts feels a little empty, a little unmotivated.
January 27, 2005
Hicks' film is a beautiful trifle, a neat trick of light and sound to coax empathy
December 06, 2004
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.
December 04, 2006
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!
September 17, 2007
A movie that says we might as well pack it in as soon as we turn 18 is more bitter than bittersweet.
July 16, 2004
Hearts in Atlantis is a leap of faith with nothing on the other side.
October 02, 2001
The unblinking sympathy for kids struggling with evil and with the strange frequencies of prepubescent passion can, if your defenses are down, lay you out.
September 28, 2001
Unabashedly sentimental, it's meant to touch our hearts in profound and important ways, but misses the mark by drawing too deeply from a pool of schmaltz.
