A Love Song for Bobby Long
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{{Infobox Movie
|movie_name = A Love Song for Bobby Long
|image = A Love Song for Bobby Long movie.jpg
|image caption = A Love Song for Bobby Long film poster
|director = Shainee Gabel
|writer = Ronald Capps (novel),
Shainee Gabel
|starring = John Travolta,
Scarlett Johansson,
Gabriel Macht
|producer = Shainee Gabel,
Paul Miller,
Bob Yari
|distributor= Lions Gate Films
|budget =
|release_date= 2 September 2004
|runtime = 119 minutes
|movie_language = English
|imdb_id = 0369672
|}}
A Love Song for Bobby Long is a 2004 independent film based on the novel by Ronald Everett Capps . It was directed and adapted to screenplay by Shainee Gabel. It stars John Travolta, Scarlett Johansson and Gabriel Macht amongst others.
Plot
- Tagline: The heart is a lonely hunter.
Purslane Will (Johansson), a girl in her late teens, returns to her hometown of New Orleans, Louisiana after the death of her mother. Expecting to find her mother's house empty, she is surprised to encounter two men who have taken residence, Bobby Long (Travolta) and his protege, Lawson Pines (Macht). They are forced to live together, and as time goes by, they realize how connected their lives really are.
Cast
- John Travolta - Bobby Long
- Scarlett Johansson - Pursy Will
- Gabriel Macht - Lawson Pines
- Deborah Kara Unger - Georgianna
- Dane Rhodes - Cecil
- David Jensen - Junior
- Clayne Crawford - Lee
- Sonny Shroyer - Earl
- Walter Breaux - Ray
- Carol Sutton - Ruthie
- Warren Kole - Sean
- Bernard Johnson - Tiny
