Rediscovering "A Love Song for Bobby Long"

I love the movie "A Love Song for Bobby Long (2004)." Like the book, The Heart is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers, it deals with the invisible people most just pass by or only notice with a curled up "I smell something" kind of stare.   The movie is inspired by the novel Off Magazine Street by Ronald Everett Capps. It centers around 18-year-old Pursy, who was named after the weed, Purslane. Pursy moves into her deceased mother's dilapidated house in Louisiana and discovers two broken and