"Your english is f%cking atrocious!"

A Love Song for Bobby Long - a film set in New Orleans starring John Travolta and Scarlett Johansson. This is another inde film I picked up because I saw a preview for it while watching another movie and it looking interesting.

The plot is simple. Scarlett's mother dies and she inherits a house that has two people living in it. According to her mother's will. Scarlett is to share the house with the two other tenants for a year. Living in the house is a former professor John Travolta, aka Bobby Long, and his former T.A. who is currently writing a book about Bobby. The two men are alcoholics and Scarlett is underage. They make an unlikely trio that manages to turn into a family of sorts. And like most families there are secrets buried and peaking out all over the place.

The movie has some delightful scenes. I wouldn't say this is the best film in the world and as most of my post point out, it is in need of editing. To paraphrase Stephen King "You have to murder your little darlings." Sharp editing can turn a mediocre film into a great one. Maybe catch this on tv especially if you like John Travolta, or even if you don't like him, he embraces Bobby Long in such a way that you almost forget it's John under all that white hair.