Release Date :
December 29th, 2004
Type : Comedy and Drama
Rating : R for pervasive language and strong sexuality.
Director : Shainee Gabel
Writer : Shainee Gabel
Producer : John Penotti, Tim Williams, Bob Yari, David
Lancaster, R. Paul Miller, John M Penotti, Paul Miller
Distributor : Lions Gate Films
Duration : 1 hr. 59 min.
A Love Song for Bobby Long Overwiew
Starring : John Travolta, Scarlett Johansson, Gabriel Macht, Deborah
Kara Unger, Dane Rhodes,
Overwiew :Upon hearing of her mother’s death, jaded teenage loner
Purslane Hominy Will (Scarlett Johansson) 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 (John
Travolta), a former literature professor, and his young protégé, Lawson
Pines (Gabriel Macht). 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.