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.
Shortly before his 21st birthday, aspiring actor William Harding (Mark Webber), a transplanted Texan (Texas being the title's "hottest state"), meets Sarah Garcia (Catalina Sandino Moreno) in a hipster bar in New York. Sarah, who's just moved from Connecticut to try to make it as a singer, is the mistress of mixed signals: She claims she doesn't want a boyfriend but flirts with Mark, and eventually succumbs to his callow persistence, even going so far as to invite him to join her for dinner w...
Released:
2007
Rated:
R
Length:
117 mins