Prayers for Bobby

“She loves everything about her son...except who he is.”

8.1

2009

1h 29m

DramaHistoryTV Movie

Director: Russell Mulcahy

Overview

Bobby Griffith was his mother's favorite son, the perfect all-American boy growing up under deeply religious influences in Walnut Creek, California. Bobby was also gay. Struggling with a conflict no one knew of, much less understood, Bobby finally came out to his family.

Trailer

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Cast

Mary Griffith

Sigourney Weaver

Mary Griffith

Robert Griffith

Henry Czerny

Robert Griffith

Bobby Griffith

Ryan Kelley

Bobby Griffith

Ed Griffith

Austin Nichols

Ed Griffith

Joy Griffith

Carly Schroeder

Joy Griffith

David

Scott Bailey

David

Jeanette

Rebecca Louise Miller

Jeanette

Nancy Griffith

Shannon Eagen

Nancy Griffith

Betty Lambert

Susan Ruttan

Betty Lambert

Reverend Whitsell

Dan Butler

Reverend Whitsell

Psychologist

Lee Garlington

Psychologist

Ophelia

Madge Levinson

Ophelia

Reviews

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Prayers for Bobby is so clunkily wholesome and earnest, in such an obvious and belaboured fashion, that it imbues everything with a hokey artificiality, which reminds you, incessantly, that none of what you're watching is real. It's embarrassingly sappy. It didn't work for me but, evidently, a lot of people don't mind being drenched in sap.

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