The great American lyricist Lorenz Hart (Ethan Hawke) collapses on a side street one rainy night in New York at the age of 48. This is the prologue of Richard Linklater’s new film, Blue Moon, his latest collaboration with Hawke and an expectedly poignant one from the prolific director.
The film quickly waltzes from this rainy street to the bar at Sardi’s restaurant in Manhattan, to an evening of reflection and sorrow seven months prior. That evening is the opening night of the hit musical, Oklahoma!, which Hart leaves early. He heads to Sardi’s to talk the night away before an audience of three – a bartender (Bobby Cannavale), an enlisted pianist on leave (Jonah Lees) and the writer E.B. White (Patrick Kennedy).
