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Hottest State, The
THINKFilm
FILM:
MPAA RATING: R for sexual content and language
Starring
Mark Webber,
Jesse Harris,
Laura Linney,
Frank Whaley,
Lynn Cohen,
Greta Gaines,
Nick McDonnel,
and
Alexandra Daddario
Days before his 21st birthday, William (Mark Webber), an actor, meets and quickly falls madly in love with Sara (Oscar nominee Catalina Sandino Moreno), a seductive yet elusive singer/songwriter. The film follows William from a Lower East Side tenement to a Mexican hotel room, to a snowbound weekend in Connecticut, and to a sweltering homecoming in the hottest state of all--Texas--in the pursuit of Sara. His stubborn and sweetly innocent quest to find someone who loves him as much as he loves her may not lead to happiness, but surely leads to newfound maturity. (THINKFilm)
| GENRE(S): |
Drama
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| WRITTEN BY: |
Ethan Hawke
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| DIRECTED BY: |
Ethan Hawke
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| RELEASE DATE: |
DVD: December 4, 2007
Theatrical: August 24, 2007
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| RUNNING TIME: |
117 minutes, Color |
| ORIGIN: |
USA |

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75
ReelViews
James Berardinelli
Hawke has made this movie his way and the result is a story that is by turns romantic and disquieting. It's well worth the price of admission.

75
New York Post
Linda Stasi
Could be an overwrought mess if it were in less capable hands. But Webber and Moreno are so good, it's hard to believe they're not really deeply and meaningfully in lust.

70
Chicago Reader
J.R. Jones
Hawke’s script is admirably light-handed in showing how the hero’s unreasoning passion is fueled by his parents’ painful divorce, and despite the story’s date-movie aspects, its most penetrating observations come not from the kids but from the young man’s estranged father and mother (Hawke and Laura Linney, both superb).

67
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Sean Axmaker
It's nothing new, but Hawke captures some evocative textures and honest moments.

67
Christian Science Monitor
Peter Rainer
At times this indie is as repetitive and self-indulgent as its protagonist, but it captures a bit of the madness of being unrequitedly in love.

60
Village Voice
Aaron Hillis
Hawke quite capably taps into the bittersweet complexities of young, love-struck idiocy.

50
Variety
Leslie Felperin
Patchy lead perfs and mannered helming subtract value from pic's tangible plus points (solid supporting turns, pleasant score).

50
The New York Times
Stephen Holden
At around the halfway point, its characters’ haranguing voices begin to grate on you. People in their early 20s, even pretty people, lose their appeal when they dwell this obsessively on their own inchoate turmoil.

50
TV Guide
Maitland McDonagh
Actor-turned-filmmaker Ethan Hawke's second feature, an adaptation of his own novel about youthful heartbreak, is hobbled by its singularly unappealing lead characters.

50
New York Daily News
Jack Mathews
Hawke, who is very good as the young man's estranged father, had best stick to what he does best.

50
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
In The Hottest State, Hawke uses fairly standard childhood motivations for his unhappiness and reveals too little real interest in the Sara character.

50
Los Angeles Times
Carina Chocano
Personal and heartfelt, it's nevertheless bogged down by a lack of perspective on the material and a pointlessly frilly visual style.

50
Slate
Dana Stevens
A viewing of The Hottest State is likely to conclude with a crosstown sprint of a different kind: As soon as the credits start rolling, you can't wait to get out.

50
San Francisco Chronicle
Walter Addiego
Hawke has created a standard-issue, Sundance-friendly indie film that's full of the predictable angst suffered by Manhattan artistic types, but unfortunately the lead characters are both so callow that you finally don't care much about them.

42
The Onion (A.V. Club)
Scott Tobias
Judging by the far more interesting adults in the film--Braga, a terrific Laura Linney as Webber's mother, and Hawke as his father--the solution for Webber and Moreno is to grow up and not be so full of themselves. In their current state, they make for unpleasant company, and so does the film.

42
Portland Oregonian
Marc Mohan
To quote Dennis Hopper from the film "Search and Destroy": "Just because it happened to you doesn't make it interesting."

38
Boston Globe
Ty Burr
When Laura Linney turns up about an hour into The Hottest State, you can see the movie that might have been.

38
Chicago Tribune
Scott Schueller
This self-important movie can't save itself from being disheartening.

38
Premiere
Glenn Kenny
The problem is the material itself, with its trite observations and shockingly flat writing.

0
Entertainment Weekly
Scott Brown
Whatever you're imagining -- self-serving self-awareness; unedited hipster mopes; yammering dear-diary script -- The Hottest State, Ethan Hawke's bathetic tale of a good-looking young actor's first heartbreak, is far worse.


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