"Blue Moon" — Read The Screenplay by Josh Safdie & Ronald Bronstein
A Genius at War With Himself — and Running Out of Time.
"Blue Moon" charts the final year of lyricist Lorenz Hart, one half of the legendary Rodgers & Hart duo, as he spirals through New York bars, Broadway openings, and obsessive love for a young woman who is both muse and mirror to his loneliness. Set against the shadow of Oklahoma!’s triumphant debut, the script captures Hart’s brilliance and bitterness in equal measure -- a man who can rhyme like a god yet cannot keep himself from drowning.
This is a screenplay about the artist’s hunger: to be loved, remembered, forgiven. It’s romantic, tragic, blisteringly funny, and painfully aware that even the brightest stars burn out fast.
A study in lyricism, alcoholism, genius, and the terror of being replaceable.
"Blue Moon" — Educator Resources & Study Guide
Writing the Artist as Hero — and Disaster.
"Blue Moon" is an invaluable script for students exploring the messy duality of the creative life. Through Hart -- brilliant, self-sabotaging, magnetic -- the screenplay demonstrates how to write flawed protagonists who remain deeply human and impossible to look away from. Dialogue sparkles like champagne. Despair lurks under every joke. This is character work at its most intimate.
We study it as a lesson in biographical structure, time compression, theatrical realism, rhythm in dialogue, and the writing of artists from the inside-out rather than as historical furniture.
Blue Moon (2025) — Classroom Study
This one is gorgeous. "Blue Moon" is lyrical, boozy, tragic, and tender as a bruise. A film about Lorenz Hart living out his final months while grasping at love, legacy, and genius that’s slipping through his fingers. The script reads like a Broadway ghost story, haunted by a man still alive. It’s witty, self-lacerating, theatrical, soaked in longing and alcohol, sharp as cabaret piano wire. It's a chef’s kiss screenplay for EDU -- messy genius, theatrical cadence, addiction as structure, and one of the best portraits of artistic decay I’ve seen in years.
- How do we write flawed protagonists the audience still roots for?
- Addiction in storytelling -- depiction vs romanticization.
- When does dialogue become music, and how is rhythm written?
- Biographical cinema: what to include, what to cut.
- What does it mean to adapt history emotionally rather than factually?
- Can a screenplay be romantic and tragic at once?
- Why do some characters seek love as validation instead of connection?
"Blue Moon" One Sheet & Script Intel
Follows the final year of lyricist Lorenz Hart as he spirals through New York bars, Broadway openings, and obsessive love for a young woman who is both muse and mirror to his loneliness. 8FLiX
| Type | ... |
FYC
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| Version | ... | FinalConformed |
| Date | ... | 01.09.2025 |
| Pages | ... | 83 |
| Genres | ... | Bio Comedy Drama |
| Screenplay | ... | Robert Kaplow |
| IMDb ID | ... | 32536315 |
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