Director Richard Linklater teams up once again with four-time Oscar nominee Ethan Hawke in a performance that really should win him his first Academy Award.

He stars as Lorenz Hart, the former creative partner of Richard Rodgers, with whom he collaborated on 28 stage musicals, contributing hundreds of classic American songs as Rodgers and Hart.

Among them is Blue Moon, featuring Hart’s lyrics of unfulfilled longing and loneliness.

Screenwriter Robert Kaplow chose this as the film’s title, with the song’s themes tragically radiating through Hawke’s phenomenal lead throughout.

The setting is Sardi’s restaurant in New York City on March 31, 1943. The bar-fly lyricist (7 months off an accidental alcohol-related death) awaits the arrival of Rodgers and his new collaborator, Hammerstein, at

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