| A Love Song For Bobby Long Review |
| by David N. Butterworth (Rating: 2.5/4) |
| As lazy as a summer day along a brackish Louisiana backwater,
Shainee Gabel's "A Love Story for Bobby Long" is a slow moving (the
diplomatic among us might say "deliberately paced") affair, a film
with no explosions, no gunfire, no police sirens,...more |
| A Love Song For Bobby Long Review |
| by Steve Rhodes (Rating: 2/4) |
| A LOVE SONG FOR BOBBY LONG is a sentimental and overtly literary tale of three
unlikely housemates, two adult alcoholics and an older teenager girl whose
recently deceased mother, Lorraine, was friends with the guys. Lorraine is
said to have had a...more |
| A Love Song For Bobby Long Review |
| by Robin Clifford (Rating: B-) |
| Purseland Will (Scarlett Johansson) is a strong-minded young woman who has
taken care of herself since her estrangement from her mother years before. When
she learns of her death, Pursy heads back to New Orleans to claim her
inheritance - a dilapidated...more |
| A Love Song For Bobby Long Review |
| by Susan Granger (Rating: 6/10) |
| Susan Granger's review of "Love Song for Bobby Long"
Are you ready for John Travolta as a pot-bellied,
hygienically-challenged, low-down drunk?
In this melodrama set in Louisiana., a motley assortment of misfits are
thrown together by...more |
| A Love Song For Bobby Long Review |
| by Mark R. Leeper (Rating: 6/10) |
| CAPSULE: A young woman whose mother has died shares
a home with two alcoholics who were friends of her
mother. Their love of literature and their passion
for life wears away at her suspicion and cynicism.
The film has thick New...more |
| A Love Song For Bobby Long Review |
| by Harvey S. Karten (Rating: B-) |
| Reviewed by Harvey S. Karten
Columbia Tristar/El Camino Pictures
Grade: B-
Directed by: Shainee Gabel
Written by: Shainee Gabel, inspired by Ronald Everett Capps's
novel "Off East Magazine St."
Cast: John Travolta, Scarlett Johansson, Gabriel...more |
| A Love Song For Bobby Long Review |
| by Jon Popick (Rating: 6/10) |
| A Love Song for Bobby Long is the feature film debut from Shainee Gabel, who
adapts the story from Ronald Everett Capps's novel Off Magazine Street.
Like Company (which is being dropped the same day), this picture features both
Scarlett Johansson and a...more |
