Prayers for Bobby

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

8.120091h 29m

Released

Drama

History

TV Movie

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.

StatusReleased

Release Date2009-01-24

Runtime1h 29m

LanguagesEnglish

CountriesUnited States of America

Keywords

coming out

suicide

based on novel or book

parent child relationship

Videos

7 total

Trailer

PRAYERS FOR BOBBY TRAILER

Stream

Hulu

Lifetime Movie Club

Lifetime Movie Club Apple TV Channel

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Cast & Crew

Sigourney Weaver

as Mary Griffith

Henry Czerny

as Robert Griffith

Ryan Kelley

as Bobby Griffith

Austin Nichols

as Ed Griffith

Carly Schroeder

as Joy Griffith

Scott Bailey

as David

Rebecca Louise Miller

as Jeanette

Shannon Eagen

as Nancy Griffith

Susan Ruttan

as Betty Lambert

Dan Butler

as Reverend Whitsell

Reviews

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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