Blue Moon (2025 film)

Blue Moon is a 2025 film about Lorenz Hart's struggles with alcoholism and mental health as he tries to save face during the opening of Oklahoma!. Directed by Richard Linklater. Written by Robert Kaplow. Lorenz Hart Oklahoma! With an exclamation point, no less! Fact - any title that feels the need for an exclamation point, you want to steer clear of. What do you call a tireless, relentless homosexual? 'Inde-faggot-ible.' But to be a writer, you have to be kind of omni-sexual, don't you? You have to have, inside yourself - you know - everyone on earth: men women, horses. How can you give voice to the whole chorus of the world if the whole chorus of the world isn't already inside you? Dialogue Oscar Hammerstein: [introducing Hart to young Stephen Sondheim] He wants to write musicals when he grows up. Lorenz Hart: Who's your favorite lyricist? Stevie Sondheim: Oscar. Lorenz Hart: Of course. What do you think of MY work? Stevie Sondheim: I like it. It's funny. Lorenz Hart: Thank you. Stevie Sondheim: It can be a little sloppy at times. Oscar Hammerstein: [smiling awkwardly] He's very tired! It's been a long day. Come on, Stevie! It's a long ride back to Doylestown. You want to go to the bathroom? Stevie Sondheim: [irritated] I'm not tired, he asked me what I thought of his work! 'Weighty affairs will just have to wait?' Elizabeth Weiland: You're the best listener I ever met. Lorenz Hart: That's because I have absolutely no interest in myself whatsoever. Lorenz Hart: You know, I'm in the park every morning, liberating this mouse I keep catching in my kitchen. E.B. White: Yeah? Lorenz Hart: I have this little glass box that captures the mouse but doesn't kill him. And every morning I walk into my kitchen, and there he is, at the bottom of the refrigerator, my little brown mouse, happily eating the cracker I left for him. And every morning I carry him down to the park, open the box, he leaps out ten feet, scurries into the underbrush. And then the next morning, I'll be damned, he is back in the box! E.B. White: How do you know it's the same mouse? Lorenz Hart: Well, he certainly looks the same. He has that same New York look of doomed hopefulness. But how does he get up the 19 floors? E.B. White: Maybe he's tipping the doorman. Lorenz Hart: You know, this morning he wasn't there? Just the cracker lying in the box. I actually missed the little fella. I really did. I think I've started to identify with him. E.B. White: Does he have a name? Lorenz Hart: I'm calling him 'Stuart.' E.B. White: With a 'W,' or a 'U?' Lorenz Hart, E.B. White: A 'U.' Nothing fancy. Just a regular middle-class mouse. Lorenz Hart: You know what the sexiest thing on the planet earth is? A half erect penis. Eddie: Jesus Christ Larry, nobody wants to hear this... Lorenz Hart: I'm not talking to you. Eddie: Who are you talking to? Lorenz Hart: Me - I gotta talk to somebody interesting. A half erect penis is a promise. A fully erect penis is an exclamation point - as a writer it offends me, it's too loud; it's too adolescent, the story's already over. But a half-erect penis: Is it going? Or is it coming? Lorenz Hart: I feel... superannuated. Eddie: Superannuated - that's a good thing, isn't it? Lorenz Hart: It means your dick doesn't work. Eddie: Must be why I don't know that word. E.B. White: How before the battle, the soldiers were skipping silver dollars in the water instead of stones 'cause they knew they were never coming back. Eddie: I couldn't enlist. My eyes. Lorenz Hart: What's the matter? They open? Cast Ethan Hawke - Lorenz Hart Margaret Qualley - Elizabeth Weiland Bobby Cannavale - Eddie Andrew Scott - w:Richard Rodgers Jonah Lees - Morty Rifkin Simon Delaney - Oscar Hammerstein II Cillian Sullivan - Stephen Sondheim Patrick Kennedy - E. B. White John Doran - Weegee Anne Brogan - Frieda Hart David Rawle - George Roy Hill External links 32536315 Blue Moon Category:2025 American films Category:Biographical films Category:LGBT-related films Category:American musical drama films Category:Films about alcoholism Category:Films set in Manhattan Category:Films directed by Richard Linklater