
“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.
Release Date: 1/24/2009
Runtime: 89 minutes
Languages: English
Director: Russell Mulcahy
00Companies: Once Upon a Time Films, Sladek Taaffe Productions, Permut Presentations
Countries: United States of America
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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 of people don't mind being drenched in sap.

Sigourney Weaver
Mary Griffith

Henry Czerny
Robert Griffith

Ryan Kelley
Bobby Griffith

Austin Nichols
Ed Griffith

Carly Schroeder
Joy Griffith

Scott Bailey
David

Rebecca Louise Miller
Jeanette

Shannon Eagen
Nancy Griffith

Susan Ruttan
Betty Lambert

Dan Butler
Reverend Whitsell

Lee Garlington
Psychologist
Madge Levinson
Ophelia
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