Blue Moon (2025)

Lorenz Hart, half of the songwriting duo Rodgers & Hart, is struggling with the fact that his partner has just opened a new show (Oklahoma) with a different partner (Hammerstein). He's sitting in a bar almost monologuing for the bartender, the pianist, and another solitary drinker who turns out to be E.B. White. And, boy, can the guy talk. I would've bought him shot after shot just to hear him ramble about romance and music and movies -- his love of language is something I share.

Ethan Hawke is the whole show here and he doesn't disappoint. The one criticism I have is that they needn't have been so concerned with Hart's stature. I was put in mind of Tim Conway's knees-on-shoes "Dorf" a couple of times, and that didn't help me keep my mind on the story.

B+