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Bobby Long (John
Travolta) is a washed up former literature professor with a voracious drinking
habit. He lives in a rundown house in New Orleans with Lawson Pines (Gabriel
Macht), his former star pupil, also an alcoholic. Lawson is allegedly writing a
novel about Bobby. Their depressive little corner of the world is disrupted when
Lorraine, the beloved eccentric singer who owns their house, dies. Her teenage
daughter, Pursy (Scarlett Johansson), who hasn't seen her mother in years,
arrives in town too late for the funeral, and crashes at the house. Afraid of
being thrown out on the street, Bobby tell Pursy that the house has been left to
all three of them. Pursy, having little else to do, decides to move in, and
starts cleaning up the place, making it her own, but the cantankerous Bobby
seems determined to drive the girl away. As Pursy settles into the diverse
little community, all of Lorraine's old friends tell her how much she looks like
her mother, and she begins to uncover some startling truths about her family
history.
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