Prayers for Bobby

2009-01-24 • 1h 29m • PG •

Drama History TV Movie

8.1

User Score

599 votes

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

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.

Russell Mulcahy

Director

Top Billed Cast

Ryan Kelley

Bobby Griffith

Sigourney Weaver

Mary Griffith

Henry Czerny

Robert Griffith

Dan Butler

Reverend Whitsell

Austin Nichols

Ed Griffith

Carly Schroeder

Joy Griffith

Movie Details

Status

Released

Original Language

Budget

$N/A

Revenue

$N/A

Runtime

1h 29m

Release Date

2009-01-24

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Reviews

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2018-06-13T21:51:34.501Z

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.