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  • 2007
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  • THINKFilm
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  • 2007
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  • 1 h 57 m

Summary 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 ho...

Directed By: Ethan Hawke

Written By: Ethan Hawke

  • 2007
  • R
  • THINKFilm
  • 1 h 57 m
  • 2007
  • R
  • THINKFilm
  • 1 h 57 m

The Hottest State

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Summary 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 ho...

Directed By: Ethan Hawke

Written By: Ethan Hawke

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Metascore
Mixed or Average Based on 20 Critic Reviews
45
25% Positive
5 Reviews
55% Mixed
11 Reviews
20% Negative
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Metascore
Mixed or Average Based on 20 Critic Reviews
45
25% Positive
5 Reviews
55% Mixed
11 Reviews
20% Negative
4 Reviews

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75
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.
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67
It's nothing new, but Hawke captures some evocative textures and honest moments.
By Sean Axmaker FULL REVIEW
50
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.
By Walter Addiego FULL REVIEW
50
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.
By Stephen Holden FULL REVIEW
50
Patchy lead perfs and mannered helming subtract value from pic's tangible plus points (solid supporting turns, pleasant score).
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38
When Laura Linney turns up about an hour into The Hottest State, you can see the movie that might have been.
By Ty Burr FULL REVIEW
0
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.
By Scott Brown FULL REVIEW

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Production Company Barracuda Films, Elixir Films, Entertainment Farm (EF), Under the Influence Productions
Release Date Aug 24, 2007
Duration 1 h 57 m
Rating R
Genres
Tagline What happens when your first love is love itself?
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Awards

Venice Film Festival
• 1 Nomination

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