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| DVD REVIEW: LOVE SONG FOR BOBBY LONG
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If you are into ethereal movies and character studies, Love Song For Bobby Long is the one to see. I don't know why this movie didn't get more play.
The setting is New Orleans.
John Travolta is super as Bobby Long, a former English professor down on his luck. Bobby and his assistant, Lawson Pines, are living in the home of a friend, Lorraine, who has just passed away.
Bobby and Lawson are wrapped around the "bottle" among other things. Lawson is writing a book about Bobby. Bobby drunkenly makes quotes from the stacks of books that surround him.
Scarlet Johansson, plays Pursey, a moody teenager, who comes home to find Bobby and Lawson Pines living in the home her mother, Lorraine, has left her.
This movie has lots of drama but takes a turn at nostalgia which makes for a really good move. Better stop. Don't want to give any more away.
Two parachute. Grant Sommers
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| DVD REVIEW: LAND OF PLENTY
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LAND OF PLENTY is kind of a weird story, but I still kept watching it. John Diehl, who plays one of the main characters, is one of these actors who is on the verge of making it. I saw him on the television show Cold Case and really like him.
In Land of Plenty, Diehl plays Paul, a troubled Vietnam vet, who lives in a kind of make believe world. It was hard to know really if he is simply paranoid or truly on the look out for terrorist after 9-11. He plays the part so convincingly. Paul, Diehl's character,
lives in a van and thinks it is his duty to track down the enemy like a secret agent.
Michelle Williams, plays Lana, Paul's
niece. I first saw her in Dawson's Creek as the different and rebellious teenager, then she was super in Brokeback Mountain.
Lana has been abroad living with her missionary father and mother. When her mother dies, she comes back to America to reconnect with her Uncle Paul and work with the homeless at a Rescue Mission in Los Angeles.
There's all kinds of side issues in the film like the plight of innocent Middle Easterners. Lana befriends a Middle Eastern looking man named Hassan at the Rescue Mission. Paul sees Hassan as a possible terrorist. Hassan is shot and dies. Paul is suspicious of a sinister plot.
Paul and Lana grow closer when they take Hassan's body to Hassan's brother for burial. Paul eventually develops compassion for a different culture with Lana's help.
The movie, in my opinion, doesn't come together very well; but, then again, the story is so complicated, mainly because people are complicated.
One parachute. Grant Sommers
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