A Love Song for Bobby Long (2004) on Netflix
After her estranged mother dies, Purslane Hominy Will returns to New Orleans to reclaim her childhood home. Two of her mother's friends, Bobby Long and Lawson Pines, are living in it.
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Plot summary
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 protégé, 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.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about A Love Song for Bobby Long (2004)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- The title track, "A Love Song For Bobby Long," is by the musician Grayson Capps, the son of Ronald Everett Capps, and the senior Capps wrote the novel that was adapted for the film.
- Star John Travolta actually sings on the soundtrack himself, performing the tracks "Barbara Allen" and "I Really Don't Want to Know."
- In order to qualify for Academy Awards consideration, the film opened on eight screens in New York City and Los Angeles on December 29, 2004, earning $28,243 on its opening weekend; it played in 24 theaters in the US at its widest release.
