I'm My Daddy

Is "The Hottest State" the passion of love or the gut wrenching that goes on when it ends (or when you discover you never found love with your father)? Or is it just the title of Director Ethan Hawke's new movie based on novelist Ethan Hawke's first novel and starring actor Ethan Hawke as the unloving dad?

If you wish to make the perfectly reasonable assumption that the book is autobiographical you can now see [real-life] father-of-two Ethan Hawke play his own [fictional?]father, although he (sort of) recently denied it: "Our relationship is, of course, very different from the one in the movie. It touches on some similar themes but it's very different and, of course, everyone thinks [my dad's] that guy. ...I bet he wishes I hadn't made [the book] into a movie."