Weed or wildflower

A Love Song for Bobby Long

(2004)

Recommended by a friend, this sat in my Netflix queue for maybe a couple of years and then on my DVR hard drive for a couple of more. It's a compilation of clichés--southern clichés, with the subset of New Orleans clichés, alcoholism clichés, writer's block clichés, academic corrosion clichés, parent-child estrangement clichés, education-of-the-ignorant/innocent clichés--you name it. And yet the commitment of John Travolta, Scarlett Johansson, and Gabriel Macht to this store-bought gumbo makes it almost palatable.