A Love Song for Bobby Long (2004)

Directors

Shainee Gabel

Cast

John Travolta, Scarlett Johansson, Gabriel Macht, Sonny Shroyer, Clayne Crawford, Dane Rhodes, David Jensen, Walter Breaux, Bernard Johnson, Carol Sutton, Warren Kole, Gina 'Ginger' Bernal, Don Brady, Douglas M. Griffin, Earl Maddox, Steve Maye, Will Barnett, Leanne Cochran, Patrick McCullough, Deborah Kara Unger

The story

When her neglectful mother Lorraine, a jazz singer, dies from a drug overdose, 18-year-old Purslane “Pursy” Hominy Will leaves a Florida trailer park and her abusive boyfriend behind to return to her hometown of New Orleans, where she had previously dropped out of high school. She is surprised to find strangers living in her mother's dilapidated house: Bobby Long, a former professor of literature at Auburn University, and his protégé and former teaching assistant Lawson Pines, a struggling writer. Both are heavy drinkers and smokers, and pass the time quoting poets, playing chess, and hanging out with the neighbors; Long also sings…

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