A Love Song for Bobby Long

A Love Song for Bobby Long (2004) is a Southern drama you can watch online on iFILM, directed by Shainee Gabel and starring John Travolta and Scarlett Johansson in New Orleans.

Pursy Will is young, headstrong, and barely knew her mother. When she returns to claim the woman's old house after her death, she finds two men already living in it: Bobby Long, a once-respected literary critic now drowning in drink, and his protégé Lawson Pyne. All three are strangers. All three share a secret they don't yet understand.

Gabel keeps the film deliberately unhurried — porch conversations, dog-eared novels, the thick heat of Louisiana hanging over everything. Travolta plays far outside his usual register here, and that distance is what makes the film worth the time. Stream A Love Song for Bobby Long online on iFILM.