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The Hottest State is a 2006 drama film written and directed by Ethan Hawke, based on his 1996 novel of the same name. The film debuted at the Venice Film Festival on September 2, 2006, and received a limited theatrical release in the United States on August 24, 2007.
Oct 1, 1996 · A negative review of Hawke's first novel, a hip romance about a young actor dumped by his girlfriend. The reviewer criticizes the clumsy writing, the vague descriptions and the self-important narrator.
- Kirkus Reviews
Oct 1, 1996 · William's affair with Sarah will take him from a tenement on the Lower East Side to a hotel room in Paris, from a flip proposal of marriage to the extremities of outraged need and the wisdom that comes only to true survivors. Anyone who reads The Hottest State will encounter a writer who can charm, dazzle, and break the heart in a single paragraph.
- 9780.3B
- 10/01/1996
- 208
- Little, Brown and Company
Sep 6, 2007 · Ethan Hawke writes, directs and co-stars in this semi-autobiographical film about young love in New York. Roger Ebert criticizes the lack of personality and stakes in the characters and the story, and praises Hawke's previous film Chelsea Walls.
The Hottest State. Ethan Hawke. Vintage Contemporaries, 1997 - Fiction - 196 pages. "Hawke does a fine job of showing what it's like to be young and full of confusion. --The New...
- Ethan Hawke
- Vintage Contemporaries, 1997
- reprint
Aug 24, 2007 · The Hottest State sounds like the ultimate vanity project — it's based on director Ethan Hawke's semi-autobiographical novel — but the film turns out to be an affecting story of a young man's...
Aug 20, 2007 · Unsurprisingly for a film written and directed by Ethan Hawke that’s also based on his vaguely autobiographical 1997 novel, The Hottest State is thoroughly infused with its creator’s pretentious indie-bohemian persona.
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