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Prayers for Bobby (2009)

8.1 | Jan 24, 2009 (US) | Drama, History, TV Movie | 01:29
http://www.prayersforbobby.com
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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.

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Ryan Kelley
Bobby Griffith
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Sigourney Weaver
Mary Griffith
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Henry Czerny
Robert Griffith
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Dan Butler
Reverend Whitsell
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Austin Nichols
Ed Griffith
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Carly Schroeder
Joy Griffith
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Shannon Eagen
Nancy Griffith
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Scott Bailey
David
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Rebecca Louise Miller
Jeanette
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Susan Ruttan
Betty Lambert

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5 | Jun 13, 2018
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.