A Love Song For Bobby Long

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 ...more

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, someone asks Bobby Long (John Travolta), "Does every word outta your mouth have to be in character?" Bobby is a larger-than-life character who may have been ...more