Hjärtan i Atlantis

Hearts in Atlantis

Like a lot of Stephen King's recent work, it is not a horror story so much as an everyday story with horror lurking in the margins. It's not a genre movie, in other words, but the story of characters we believe in and care about.

Dipped in the honey of late cinematographer Piotr Sobocinski's palette, Hearts in Atlantis solidifies Scott Hicks's rank as one of Hollywood's most visually evocative power-players.

Steeped in nostalgia, "Hearts in Atlantis," based on a Stephen King collection of short stories, draws on the same thematic elements as the author's last big-screen adaptation, "The Green Mile.