A Love Song for Bobby Long

[seretogis]

This is not a new movie, but one which I really enjoyed and will give you a good portrait of pre-Katrina New Orleans. It is the first major picture from Shainee Gabel and stars Scarlett Johansson as a bitter young woman who returns to New Orleans for the funeral of a mother she never really knew and John Travolta as a dirty old man who challenges her in many ways. The dialogue and storyline are very well written, cinematography is great, and the acting is well done thanks to the above along with Gabriel Macht and Debra Kara-Unger.

Well worth a rental, but if you enjoy movies like Crash or An Unfinished Life you wouldn't do wrong to just put it on your Amazon wish-list.

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Plot Summary for
A Love Song for Bobby Long (2004)

Upon hearing of her mother's death, jaded teenage loner Purslane Hominy Will returns to New Orleans for the first time in years, ready to reclaim her childhood home. Expecting to find her late mother's house abandoned, Pursy is shocked to discover that it is inhabited by two of her mother's friends: Bobby Long, a former literature professor, and his young protégé, Lawson Pines. These broken men, whose lives took a wrong turn years before, have been firmly rooted in the dilapidated house for years, encouraged only by Lawson's faltering ambitions to write a novel about Bobby Long's life. Having no intention of leaving, Pursy, Bobby Long and Lawson are all forced to live together. Yet as time passes, their tenuous, makeshift arrangement unearths a series of buried personal secrets that challenges their bonds, and reveals just how inextricably their lives are intertwined.

[Lwang9276]

yea, i saw the movie jsut for scarlett and thought it was very nicely done. I was expecting a boring movie but it kept my attention. would recommend also

[seretogis]

Originally Posted by Lwang9276

yea, i saw the movie jsut for scarlett and thought it was very nicely done. I was expecting a boring movie but it kept my attention. would recommend also

I liked Scarlett from Girl with a Pearl Earring and Ghostworld and was surprised how much I liked John Travolta -- I generally didn't think much of him until I saw him as Bobby Long.