“Low Men In Yellow Coats” is the story of a boy's awakening to the fact that adults are often fallible and sometimes cruel beyond belief. In his essay about the opening novella in the collection “Stephen King Goes To The Movies,” Stephen King writes, As the table-setter for the book, “Low Men In Yellow Coats” is a kind of tragic coming-of-age tale that doesn’t see young Bobby Garfield have his eyes opened to a bright future ahead of him, but instead he previews the potential malice of adulthood. Great ideals and hopes of societal change from the middle of the 20th century result in disillusionment and heartbreak, from the jungles of Vietnam to extremist movements in California. The book fittingly opens with an iconic Peter Fonda line from 1960’s Easy Rider – “ We blew it” – as Hearts In Atlantis is Stephen King’s criticism of his own generation: the Baby Boomers. The stories “Hearts In Atlantis,” “Blind Willie,” and “Why We’re In Vietnam” in part trace Carol and John’s tragedy-filled journeys through the latter half of the 20th century, and “Heavenly Shades Of Night Are Falling” wraps up the narrative with Bobby returning to Harwich as an adult for John’s funeral and reuniting with Carol, his first love. Sully-John – as children living in the town of Harwich, Connecticut in 1960. “Low Men In Yellow Coats” introduces the primary protagonists – Bobby Garfield, Carol Gerber, and John Sullivan a.k.a. Academy Award-winning screenwriter William Goldman, who had previously written the script for Misery, took a second crack at bringing Stephen King’s work to the big screen with the project… though the legacy of the final product is far more complicated. The strength of this relationship led directly to the creation of director Scott Hicks’ Hearts In Atlantis – Castle Rock having acquired the rights to the book of the same name just months after its publication in 1999. According to Tony Magistrale’s Hollywood’s Stephen King, there was a standing deal in place that would see Castle Rock Entertainment own the movie rights to a given story for the price of $1, but King got director, script, and cast approval, as well as five percent of the profits from the very first dollar. The development of so many successful films generated a great deal of trust between Stephen King and Castle Rock – which was obviously fitting given that Rob Reiner named the company after the fictional setting of 1986’s Stand By Me (which is based on the King novella “The Body”).
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