This just my be my favorite Movie Review of all time, if only for the last line:
The Hottest State (2007)
EW.com Readers | Chicago Sun-Times | N.Y. Daily News | Philadelphia Inquirer | USA Today | Variety | Boston Globe | EW | Critics' Average |
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C- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | F | D |
Limited Release: Aug 24, 2007; Rated: R; Length: 117 Minutes; Genre: Drama; With: Catalina Sandino Moreno and Mark Webber
Scott Brown
Scott Brown is a senior writer for EW and a frequent contributor to National Public Radio -- he has the tote bag to prove it
If the words ''based on a semiautobiographical first novel'' don't send chills up your spine, how about ''adapted for the screen and directed by the author''? 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. Everything about the Hawke avatar William (Mark Webber) is utterly jejune and generic, including his issues with Daddy (Hawke himself, completing the film's journey up its own keister). F
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