
A Love Song for Bobby Long(2004)
A headstrong young woman returns to New Orleans after the death of her estranged mother.


“How can you save someone, who won't save herself?”
While fighting for a woman who sits on death row, a lawyer happens upon new information which brings into question the motives of a man associated with her client

Connie Nielsen
Charlotte Cory

Aidan Quinn
Frank Nitzche

Kelly Preston
Susan Kennan

Tim Daly
Martin North

Mark Ryan
Mark Schlesser

Mark Holton
Joe Charbonic

Sara-Marie Maltha
Stella / Julie
Randy Colton
Joe Hammond
Robin Brooks Sullivan
Mary Hammond
Madison Mueller
Kirstie
Return to Sender is a drama film released in 2004 exploring themes of lawyer, free from execution, blind, beeper ball, wrongful imprisonment, little girl. Directed by Bille August, it stars Connie Nielsen, Aidan Quinn, Kelly Preston. While fighting for a woman who sits on death row, a lawyer happens upon new information which brings into question the motives of a man associated with her client
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