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Prayers for Bobby

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8.1/10 • 595

2009-01-241h 29m

DramaHistoryTV Movie

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

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.

Directors
Russell Mulcahy
Editors
Victor Du Bois

Top Billed Cast

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  1. Ryan Kelley

    Ryan Kelley

    Bobby Griffith

  2. Sigourney Weaver

    Sigourney Weaver

    Mary Griffith

  3. Henry Czerny

    Henry Czerny

    Robert Griffith

  4. Dan Butler

    Dan Butler

    Reverend Whitsell

  5. Austin Nichols

    Austin Nichols

    Ed Griffith

  6. Carly Schroeder

    Carly Schroeder

    Joy Griffith

  7. Shannon Eagen

    Shannon Eagen

    Nancy Griffith

  8. Scott Bailey

    Scott Bailey

    David

  9. Rebecca Louise Miller

    Rebecca Louise Miller

    Jeanette

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tmdb15214618

Jun 13, 2018

5/10

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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Status
Released
Original Language
English
Budget
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Revenue
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Keywords
coming outsuicidebased on novel or bookparent child relationshiphomophobiachristianityintolerancebased on true storygriefmale homosexualityreligiontragic eventlgbtdeath of sonteen suicidelgbt activistreligious intolerancedeath of a loved onegay theme