Hearts in Atlantis (2001) on Netflix
Eleven-year-old Bobby Garfield and his widowed mother, Liz, share a house in a 1960s town. His friends are Carol and Sully, and a boarder, Ted Brautigan, takes a room with them.
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- IMDb6.9/1043,755 votes
- Rotten Tomatoes49%
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Plot summary
Bobby Garfield returns to the town where he grew up after his friend Sully dies, and remembers the summer he was eleven. In that summer he lives with his widowed mother, Liz, and spends his days with Carol Gerber and Sully. Liz takes in a boarder, Ted Brautigan, an older man who befriends the boy. Ted pays Bobby a dollar a week to read the newspaper aloud to him and asks him to keep watch for signs of the low men, strangers he says want to take him back. Bobby sees one of these signs but says nothing, not wanting to lose his new friend.
Cast
- Brett Fleisheras Willie Shearman
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Hearts in Atlantis (2001)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- Hearts in Atlantis was Anton Yelchin's feature film debut: director Scott Hicks made him his top choice to play Bobby Garfield after reviewing casting tapes, then brought him to Charleston to read with Anthony Hopkins, who was filming Hannibal and agreed on casting him.
