Based upon parts of
Stephen King's 1999 unified collection of the same name, it delves into the life of Bobby Garfield (
Anton Yelchin). An adult at the beginning, the timeline drifts back to Bobby's eleventh birthday and the days that followed, specifically to events surrounding the appearance of an aged man named Ted Brautigan (
Anthony Hopkins) who had a special ability. The old man has a positive affect on the youth, but with every forward step into maturity comes the ache of knowing that once taken it's impossible to go back.
The film's best scenes occur one after another, which makes an impression at the time but result in the remainder of it seeming to move even slower by comparison; the nods to
Stand by Me (1986) are similarly double-edged.
2½ inside straights out of 5
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