Born to Be Blue

Ethan Hawke dazzles as jazz legend Chet Baker in this chancy "anti-biopic" that admittedly plays fast and loose with the facts and timeline concerning the troubled trumpeter’s chaotic existence, depicting Baker from the time of his early-‘50s professional breakout--and introduction to heroin--to his late-‘60s efforts to come back from addiction and a beating that cost him his front teeth. Carmen Ejogo, Callum Keith Rennie, Stephen McHattie, Janet-Laine Green also star. 97 min. Widescreen; Soundtrack: English.