Stephen King: Ranking His Films From Worst To Best
23. Hearts In Atlantis
Children Of The Corn fully committed to being a pulpy horror film. That's something to be applauded, because when filmmakers go after some of Stephen King's more sentimental work, you wind up with saccharine dramas like Hearts Of Atlantis. Which, to its credit, did manage to assemble a rather remarkable cast, with Anthony Hopkins at the centre of it all. David Morse's middle aged man looks back on his younger self (played by Anton Yelchin), and a series of weird events that occurred with him and his pals as 11-year-olds. His single mother took in Hopkins' Ted Brautigan as a lodger who turns out to be psychic, and sets about fixing the various dramas of a struggling family in a typical middle American town. It's a very gentle film, to the point where it barely appears to be going anywhere. In fact it doesn't go anywhere at all, with the only thing keeping the audience's attention being Hopkins and director Scott Hicks's unique visual style. Otherwise? A little hollow.
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