Movie: A Love Song for Bobby Long (2004)

• Director: Shainee Gabel
• Release Date: 21 January 2005 (USA)
• Run Time: 119 min
• Country: USA
• Genre: Drama  
• MPAA: Rated R for language including some sexual references.

Tagline: The heart is a lonely hunter.

Trivia: Writer/director Shainee Gabel adapted the screenplay from the previously unpublished novel “Off Magazine Street” by Ronald Everett Capps. Capps’ son, Grayson Capps, appears in the film and contributed six songs to its soundtrack.
 

Goofs: Revealing mistakes: When playing guitar and singing with his friends, Bobby Long isn’t really touching the strings of the guitar.
 

“Upon hearing of her mother’s death, jaded teenage loner Purslane Hominy Will 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, a former literature professor, and his young protege, Lawson Pines. 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. Written by Sujit R. Varma”