Hearts in Atlantis, 2001 (Grade C+)

Director Scott Hicks
Awards? -- none that I know of
Cast:  Anthony Hopkins; Aston Yelchin; Hope Davis; Mika Boorem; David Morse; Alan Tudyk; Tom Bower; Celia Weston; Adam LeFevru; Will Rothhaar

sez says: I read this book and wanted to see the movie. This is a rendition of the first story in the book--the book being made up of multiple characters, loosely tied together by secondary characters that jump from one story to the next.  Anthony Hopkins is brilliant.  The cinematography--and the creation of a world circa 1960s is great.   The story is a slow unfolding of  smaller events that turn to bigger events and that all add up to be events of substance in our protagonists life.  But, it is as much --if not more-- about the importance of relationships as it is about actions. It has a light motif of the supernatural--and some suggestive points about our society (are the Low men sent by J Edgar Hoover?) But in the end--it is not terribly compelling. It is a light diversion.