The Hottest State
What happens when your first love is love itself?
The Hottest State is a 2006 drama film directed and written by Ethan Hawke, which he based on the novel of the same name that he had written and published ten years earlier, in 1996.
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Days before his 21st birthday, William (Mark Webber), a young actor, meets and falls quickly and madly in love with Sara (Catalina Sandino Moreno), a seductive yet skittish singer/songwriter. The film follows William as his affair takes him from a Lower East Side tenement to a Mexican hotel room and through the emotional extremities of passion, rage, and need. Yearning for someone to love who loves him back, William's journey forces him to come to terms with his own past. THE HOTTEST STATE is based on the book of the same name by Ethan Hawke.