Hearts in Atlantis [videorecording] / Castle Rock Entertainment presents in association with Village Roadshow Pictures and NPV Entertainment, a Scott Hicks film ; producer, Kerry Heysen ; screenplay writer, William Goldman ; director, Scott Hicks.
Anthony Hopkins, Anton Yelchin, Hope Davis, Mika Boorem, David Morse, Alan Tudyk, Tom Bower. Originally produced as a motion picture in 2001. Based on the short story by Stephen King.
Summary:
As a mid-aged man's friend dies, Bobby takes a look back at his childhood memories ... When mysterious out-of-towner, Ted, moves into the boarding house that 11-year-old Bobby shares with his self-involved mother, Bobby jumps at the chance to befriend an adult who talks to him straightforwardly. Ted enlists Bobby to read him the newspaper daily--and to keep an eye out for the "low men" bent on capturing Ted, who possesses a strange mind-reading power.
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