Hearts in Atlantis (2001) (Movie)

format_quote Ted: You know, when you're young, you have moments of such happiness, you think you're living in someplace magical, like Atlantis must have been. Then we grow up, and our hearts break in two.

stars  The Sullivans' maroon station wagon with a white top (55:53 to 56:11) is a 1958 Packard, of which only 159 were built.

stars  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".

stars  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".

stars  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.

stars  The name Ted Brautigan is possibly a reference to two authors from the 1960s counterculture: Ted Berrigan and Richard Brautigan.