to tell her the truth about what she has been through, and how her behavior is affecting her relationship with her son, providing another reason that Ted must leave. Ted is eventually captured with the help of a tip from Liz. As some form of closure, Ted yells to Bobby as he is being driven away that he wouldn't have missed a moment "not for all the world", and later Bobby mirrors the same feelings. Bobby is later confronted by Harry, but Bobby grabs the latter's baseball bat and beats him with it. Liz finds a new job in Boston and moves the family there. Before he leaves, Bobby and Carol say their goodbyes and share a final kiss. Returning to the present, Bobby turns to leave his old home wherein he meets a young girl named Molly. The two strike up a conversation wherein Molly reveals that she is Carol's daughter and that Carol died in recent years. Bobby gives Molly a photograph of a young Carol and the two become friends. Cast Anthony Hopkins as Ted Brautigan Anton Yelchin as Robert "Bobby" Garfield David Morse as Adult Robert "Bobby" Garfield Hope Davis as Elizabeth "Liz" Garfield Mika Boorem as Carol Gerber Boorem also plays Molly, Carol's daughter, whom the adult Bobby meets in the present. Deirdre O'Connell as Mrs. Gerber Will Rothhaar as John "Sully" Sullivan Timmy Reifsnyder as Harry Doolin Alan Tudyk as Monte Man Tom Bower as Len Files Celia Weston as Alana Files Adam LeFevre as Don Biderman Release Box office Hearts in Atlantis opened at #3 raking in $9,021,494 in its opening weekend at the U.S. box office. The film would eventually gross a domestic total of $24,185,781, somewhat short of its $31 million budget, but with an international $6,733,634, it would total $30,919,415. Reception Hearts in Atlantis received mixed reviews. On Rotten Tomatoes, it has an approval rating of 49% based on reviews from 137 critics, with an average score of 5.8/10 and the consensus states "Hearts in Atlantis is well-acted and beautiful to look at, but the movie is nothing more than a mood piece." According to Metacritic, which sampled the opinions of 30 critics and calculated a score of 55 out of 100, the film received "mixed or average reviews". Roger Ebert gave it 3.5 out of 4 stars. References External links 2001 films 2001 thriller drama films American mystery films