Love Song for Bobby Long - 6

This film has a strange combination of actors, Scarlet Johansson, John Travolta, and Gabriel Macht. The story develops slowly but you soon learn that a women has died and the people left are trying to figure out how to grieve and begin life again. Bobby Long is a former English professor who is living with his writing assistant in Lorraine's house (the woman who died). Lorraine's daughter, Pursy comes back to reclaim the house where she grew up. The catch: Lorraine has left the house to all three of them, so they learn to live together and start to actually get along and help each other. All three of them then start to think about there pasts and how they can both remember and move on into the present and the future. It is in this intense community where they are able to learn how to live meaningfully with others, knowing that to change others is to be changed yourself.