Hearts in Atlantis

In the summer of 1960, young Bobby Garfield is sharing adventures with his best friends Carol and Sully when an enigmatic lodger named Ted Brautigan rents a room in his family's boarding house. Bobby's self-absorbed, widowed mother Liz couldn't care less about her son, so Bobby, who is being tormented by local bullies, quickly befriends the otherworldly Ted, becoming his confidante, and reading the paper to him to save the aging man's failing eyesight. Soon, Bobby learns that Ted possesses supernatural gifts, has a haunted past, and is being pursued by sinister men whose intentions are unclear.