A Love Song for Bobby Long is a 2004 independent film based on the novel by Ronald Everett Capps . It was directed and adapted to screenplay by Shainee Gabel. It stars John Travolta, Scarlett Johansson and Gabriel Macht amongst others.

Tagline: The heart is a lonely hunter.

Purslane Will (Johansson), a girl in her late teens, returns to her hometown of New Orleans, Louisiana after the death of her mother. Expecting to find her mother's house empty, she is surprised to encounter two men who have taken residence, Bobby Long (Travolta) and his protege, Lawson Pines (Macht). They are forced to live together, and as time goes by, they realize how connected their lives really are.