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Format:

DVD, Videorecording, Projected Medium, Visual Materials

Title:

A love song for Bobby Long / Lions Gate Films, Destination Films and El Camino Pictures present ; a Crossroads Films and Bob Yari production ; produced by Bob Yari, R. Paul Miller, David Lancaster ; written for the screen and directed by Shainee Gabel.

Edition:

Anamorphic widescreen format (1.85:1).

Publisher, Date:

Description:

1 videodisc (120 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.

Summary:

"Upon hearing of her mother's death, jaded teenage loner Purslane Hominy Will returns to New Orleans for the first time in years, ready to reclaim her childhood home. Expecting to find her late mother's house abandoned, Pursy is shocked to discover that it is inhabited by two of her mother's friends: Bobby Long, a former literature professor, and his young protégé, Lawson Pines"--Container.

Target Audience Note:

MPAA rating: R; for language including some sexual references.

Subjects:

Universities and colleges -- Admission -- Drama.

Mothers -- Death -- Drama.

Father figures -- Drama.

Teenage girls -- Drama.

Alcoholics -- Drama.

Authors -- Drama.

Orphans -- Drama.

New Orleans (La.) -- Drama.

Genre:

Melodramas (Motion pictures)

Fiction films.

Feature films.

Films for the hearing impaired.

Video recordings for the hearing impaired.

Drama.

Other Author:

Yari, Bob, 1961-

Gabel, Shainee.

Travolta, John, 1954-

Johansson, Scarlett, 1984-

Macht, Gabriel, 1972-

Unger, Deborah Kara.

Davis, Elliot.

Percy, Lee.

Fruchtman, Lisa.

Larson, Nathan, 1970-

Capps, Ronald Everett. Off Magazine Street.

Lions Gate Films (Santa Monica, Calif.)

Destination Films.

El Camino Pictures.

Crossroads Films (Firm)

Bob Yari Productions.

Sony Pictures Home Entertainment (Firm)

Notes:

Based on the novel: Off Magazine Street / by Ronald Everett Capps.

Originally produced as a motion picture in 2004.

Special features (38 min.): optional audio commentary by Gabel & Davis; 8 deleted and extended scenes (10 min. total); "The making of 'A love song for Bobby Long'" featurette (28 min.).

Director of photography, Elliot Davis ; editors, Lee Percy, Lisa Fruchtman ; composer, Nathan Larson.

John Travolta, Scarlett Johansson, Gabriel Macht, Deborah Kara Unger, Dane Rhodes, David Jensen, Clayne Crawford, Sonny Shroyer, Walter Breaux, Carol Sutton.

DVD, region 1; Dolby digital 5.1.

In English, dubbed French or dubbed Portuguese; with optional English, French, Portuguese, or Spanish subtitles.

Closed-captioned.

Contents:

Special features include: commentary by the director & cinematographer ; deleted and extended scenes ; behind the scenes of A love song for Bobby Long.

ISBN:

1404950974

9781404950979

Publisher Number:

03800

Other Number:

57681196

System Availability:

2

Current Holds:

0

# Local items:

2

Control Number:

702299

# Local items in:

2

# System items in:

2

Call Number:

DVD MOVIE Love son