Linney is allowed to play William's mom as a strong but somewhat rigid woman who's made no excuses for her life and won't accept any from others. That's largely because of the talent of Laura Linney and Hawke, but also because they're given relatable characteristics. When William's mom and dad show up for the final third of the film, they turn out to be a bit engaging. Hawke fails to give William or Sarah anything to do or say that is even remotely inviting. There is a nice bit of nudity in this film but that is more than canceled out by a scene where we watch William urinate into a toilet, yellowy stream and all. The soundtrack is also an unceasing stream of one folksy, countryish song after another that seeps into your brain until you feel like beating Willie Nelson to death with a garden hoe. He wantonly violates the "one montage per good movie" rule, includes flashbacks seen from William's point of view as a child, repeatedly tries to make boring and pointless scenes more interesting by splicing them together and throughout the first 3/4ths of the movie, Hawke constantly cuts away to pointless foreshadowing shots of William riding on a train. ![]() Even Hawke apparently understood how common and uninvolving his story was, because he throws everything but the kitchen sink into telling it. The sparse detail added to the narrative only emphasizes how trite it all is. We've all watched it a thousand times before and most of us have lived through it a time or two. I have no idea why Ethan Hawke thought that story was something anyone needed to experience on the screen. William drives from New York City to Texas with his mother and father as teenagers in the backseat. After some time goes by, William and Sarah reconnect. ![]() He visits his estranged dad and mopes around like a jackass in front of him. His mom shows up to give him all the comfort of hugging a porcupine. He mopes around like a jackass and rejects an old girlfriend (played by the very sexy Michelle Williams). They spend four weeks apart and then she breaks up with him. She says they should get married and then changes her mind after talking with her mother for 20 seconds on the phone. They take a trip to Mexico and she has sex with him. They move in together and she still won't have sex with him. More specifically, William and Sarah's relationship goes like this They meet and she won't have sex with him. An immature weenie named William Harding (Mark Webber) falls in love with an opaque bitch named Sarah Garcia (Catalina Sandino Morena), she breaks his heart and he spends the rest of the film moping around like a jackass. Though it's gussied up with narration, flashbacks, intertwining scenes and a buttload of montages, the plot of this thing is crudely simplistic. ![]() As both the writer and director of The Hottest State, Ethan Hawke proves he should really stick to acting. The final plane in formation, a spray plane, left a trail of smoke over Webbers Falls.This film combines the beyond tedious work of a writer who doesn't know how to tell an interesting tale with the visual melange of a director who mistakenly thinks a multiplicity of images multiplies effect. Pilots, those who Gould had impacted, flew over one by one as the casket was taken to the hearse. The grass runway in a corn field that he used for his work, was busy with planes and pilots all connected to one man.ĭaniel Sheffield said, “I just think for everything he’s done for this community as farmers, which farming is this community, this is the least we could do.”Īs the casket was wheeled out after the service, everyone paused to look up. ![]() The pilots he had encouraged to pursue their dreams gathered on the ground to share their memories. As word spread, pilots starting planning to fly in for the funeral. Last Friday, Gould was killed in a crash while spraying crops. Paul Gould's aerial crop spraying business held a prominent place in the community, helping farmers produce better crops. While it’s sometimes hard for funerals to measure up to the treasured memories, that would not work for the funeral of crop duster pilot Paul Gould, and certainly not for the people of Webbers Falls. Webbers Falls Community Honors Man Who Died In Plane Crash
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