Prayers for Bobby 2009

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

8.1 / 10   559 vote(s)
PG
Drama History TV Movie

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.

Homepage http://www.prayersforbobby.com
Release Date 2009-01-24
Runtime 1h 30m
Directors Russell Mulcahy, Thom Best
Producers Stanley M. Brooks, Chris Taaffe, Daniel Sladek, David Permut, Damian Ganczewski
Writers Leroy Aarons, Katie Ford

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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