Prayers for Bobby (2009)
1h 29m | PG-13
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.
Director: Russell Mulcahy
Studio: Once Upon a Time Films
Genre: Drama, History, TV Movie
Video: 720p
Cast
Ryan Kelley
as Bobby Griffith
Sigourney Weaver
as Mary Griffith
Henry Czerny
as Robert Griffith
Dan Butler
as Reverend Whitsell
Austin Nichols
as Ed Griffith
Carly Schroeder
as Joy Griffith
Reviews
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.