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MPAA Raing: R
Director: Shainee Gabel
Genres: Melodrama, Ensemble Film, Drama
Released Date: December 29, 2004 (USA)
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Summary:
Bobby Long (John Travolta) is a washed up former literature professor with a voracious drinking habit. He lives in a rundown house in New Orleans with Lawson Pines (Gabriel Macht of The Recruit), his former star pupil, also an alcoholic. Lawson is allegedly writing a novel about Bobby. Their depressive little corner of the world is disrupted when Lorraine, the bel... Full Summary >>

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Cast:
John Travolta - (Bobby Long)
Scarlett Johansson - (Pursy Will)
Gabriel Macht - (Lawson Pines)
Deborah Kara Unger - (Georgianna)
Dane Rhodes - (Cecil)
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Review:
Adapting a novel for the screen is a tricky process, and unfortunately it's clearly one that neophyte writer/director Shainee_Gabel has not mastered. Early on in A Love Song for Bobby Long, the overly literary voice-over ramblings of Lawson Pines (Gabriel_Macht) ("New Orleans is a siren of a city") begin to grate. Later in the film, som... Continue >>

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