Prayers for Bobby
She loves everything about her son...except who he is.
2009 | 89m | English
Popularity: 1 (history)
| Director: | Russell Mulcahy |
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| Writer: | Leroy Aarons |
| Staring: |
| 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. | |
| Release Date: | Jan 24, 2009 |
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| Director: | Russell Mulcahy |
| Writer: | Leroy Aarons |
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| Keywords | parent child relationship, homophobia, coming out, intolerance, male homosexuality, tragic event, death of son, teen suicide, lgbt activist, religious intolerance, death of a loved one |
| Production Companies | Permut Presentations, Once Upon a Time Films, Sladek Taaffe Productions |
| Box Office |
Revenue: $0
Budget: $0 |
| Updates |
Updated: Feb 01, 2025 Entered: Apr 13, 2024 |
| Name | Character |
|---|---|
| Ryan Kelley | Bobby Griffith |
| Sigourney Weaver | Mary Griffith |
| Henry Czerny | Robert Griffith |
| Dan Butler | Reverend Whitsell |
| Austin Nichols | Ed Griffith |
| Carly Schroeder | Joy Griffith |
| Shannon Eagen | Nancy Griffith |
| Scott Bailey | David |
| Rebecca Louise Miller | Jeanette |
| Susan Ruttan | Betty Lambert |
| Name | Job |
|---|---|
| Russell Mulcahy | Director |
| Thom Best | Director of Photography |
| Victor Du Bois | Editor |
| Leroy Aarons | Book |
| Katie Ford | Teleplay |
| Name | Title |
|---|---|
| Chris Taaffe | Executive Producer |
| Daniel Sladek | Executive Producer |
| Damian Ganczewski | Producer |
| Stanley M. Brooks | Executive Producer |
| David Permut | Executive Producer |
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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 o ... f people don't mind being drenched in sap.
Jun 23, 2021