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A Love Song for Bobby Long

Year:

2005

Duration:

119 min

Genres:

Drama

IMDB rate:

7.2

Director:

Shainee Gabel

Awards:

Nominated for Golden Globe.

Details

Country: USA

Release Date: 2005-01-21

Filming Locations: New Orleans, Louisiana, USA

Earnings

Opening Weekend: $28,243 (USA) (2 January 2005)

Gross: $159,171 (USA) (13 February 2005)

Cast

Actor

Character

Scarlett Johansson

A Love Song for Bobby Long

John Travolta

Bobby Long

Gabriel Macht

Lawson Pines

Deborah Kara Unger

Georgianna

Dane Rhodes

Cecil

David Jensen

Junior

Clayne Crawford

Lee

Sonny Shroyer

Earl

Carol Sutton

Ruthie

Walter Breaux

Ray

Warren Kole

Sean (as Warren Blosjo)

Bernard Johnson

Tiny

Gina 'Ginger' Bernal

Waitress

Douglas M. Griffin

Man #1 (as Douglas Griffin)

Earl Maddox

Man #2

Steve Maye

Man #3

Don Brady

Old Man

Will Barnett

Old Man #2

Patrick McCullough

Streetcar Boy

Leanne Cochran

Streetcar Girl

Nick Loren

Merchant

Darlene Moore

Jazz Club Guest (uncredited)

Brooke Mueller

Sandy (uncredited)

Karen Pritchett

Mourner (uncredited)

Doc Whitney

Alcoholic (uncredited)

Did you know?

Trivia

The production ran into budgetary problems halfway through. Several background extras were brought to a New Orleans location, fitted for costumes, fed dinner, and then sent home without pay because their scene had been cut. Some New Orleans retailers complained that thousands of dollars worth of clothes were returned unused because the scenes they were bought for were never filmed.

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Writer/director Shainee Gabel adapted the screenplay from the previously unpublished novel "Off Magazine Street" by Ronald Everett Capps.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.

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Goofs

When Pursy is leaving the house, she is wearing shorts. When she comes out on the street with all her belongings, she is wearing long jeans.

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Bobby's cigarette while in diner with Lawson.

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Geraldine asks if Lorraine finally kicked them out. Through the smoke from Bobby's cigarette we see Lawson light his cigarette. After Bobby says God wouldn't let that happen Lawson lights the cigarette again.

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Quotes

Lawson Pines: [Carrying in a tree] Ho ho ho!

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Bobby Long: Lawson is not in love with you.

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Pursy Will: Everyone knows that books are better than life! That's why they're books!

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Faq

How does it end?

Pursy finds unsent letters her mother wrote to her. Among them: a song she wrote for Pursy's father, Bobby Long.Pursy decides not to sell the house. She graduates high school and goes to New Orleans Universaty.She walks along the streets as Bobby did in the beginning of the movie, and goes to the cemetary. She puts a book between her mother's tombstone and Bobby's tombstone- it is "A Love Song for Bobby Long" by Lawson Pines, from which he read as narrator along the movie. Lawson comes to the cemetary and holds Purcy's hand.

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