Hearts in Atlantis
Hearts in Atlantis is a 2001 American mystery drama film directed by Scott Hicks and starring Anthony Hopkins and Anton Yelchin. 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.
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| Running time | 101 minutes
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| Language | English
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| Budget | $31 million
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| Box office | $30.9 million
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- The Sullivans' maroon station wagon with a white top (55:53 to 56:11) is a 1958 Packard, of which only 159 were built.
- Even though the film is based on a story from the book "Hearts in Atlantis", the story it was based on was actually called "Low Men in Yellow Coats", referring to the men that were after Ted. "Hearts in Atlantis" is the name of the story that follows "Low Men in Yellow Coats".
- To Scott Hicks, the film's "Atlantis" is the lost domain of childhood (commentary at 32:53), which isn't at all the symbolism evoked in readers of Stephen King's book "Hearts in Atlantis", where the second story, also titled 'Hearts in Atlantis', concerns students, attending college as a sanctuary to avoid being drafted into the Vietnam War, becoming addicted to the card game called "hearts".
- Scott Hicks notes that a real moth appears at a porch light at 12:09 when Bobby first talks with Ted, but at 12:18 and 12:26 digital moths are shown as part of several things done to make the scene appear more realistic even though it was shot on a set due to the restrictions Anton Yelchin's age imposed on his participation in night shooting. Despite using a moth wrangler (not specifically cited in the credits), only one real moth made it into the film.
- The name Ted Brautigan is possibly a reference to two authors from the 1960s counterculture: Ted Berrigan and Richard Brautigan.
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