A headstrong young woman returns to New Orleans after the death of her estranged mother.
"The heart is a lonely hunter."
Top Billed 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
Detailed Critic & Audience Reviews
W WuchakVerified TMDB Critic
2018-09-23
Literature-quoting lazy drama about a teen girl and two older boozers living in a hovel in New Orleans
A poor, precocious 18 year-old woman (Scarlett Johansson) returns to New Orleans after the death of her estranged mother where she inherits a dilapidated house in the low-income section with two co-heir strangers: A quirky ex-English professor (John Travolta) and his wannabe-writer mentee (Gabriel Macht), both alcoholics in a foggy melancholy. As the story progresses, the truth is slowly revealed.
“A Love Song for Bobby Long” (2004) is a sluggish, sometimes humorous drama set in The...
A adrienna.rsVerified TMDB Critic
2025-05-29
_It was the invisible people he wanted to live with. The one that we walk past every day. The ones we sometimes become. The ones in books who live only in someone's minds eye. He was a man who was destined to go through life and not around it. A man who was sure the shortest path to heaven was straight through hell._
_A Love Song for Bobby Long_ is a straight up masterpiece. This movie isn’t some action packed sci-fi movie or an emotionally draining drama. This movie is about the lives of two alcoholic failed academics, and a young woman destined for the same path. This movie is _about_ t...
