Steeped in soggy heat and 86-proof humidity, Shainee Gabel's loose adaptation of Ronald Everett Capps' novel
Off Magazine Street is an amiable compendium of clichés about alcoholic philosophers and their woozy charms. Self-proclaimed man of letters Bobby Long (John Travolta), a former university professor committing suicide by booze, and his younger protege, aspiring novelist Lawson Pines (Gabriel Macht), share a run-down shotgun shack in New Orleans that until recently belonged to hard-loving barfly Lorraine, a sometime-singer and beloved fixture around the lower depths. Lawson purports to be working on a novel inspired by Bobby's experiences, but in fact has...
Released:
2004
Rated:
R
Length:
119 mins