Prayers for Bobby

Prayers for Bobby
8.0

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Directed by: Russell Mulcahy

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.

Reviews (2)

  • tmdb15214618 (Rated: 5)

    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 o...

  • kinrich30 (Rated: 8)

    This was based on real events - a rather sad movie. When a woman mistakes religious dogma for religious faith, her son pays the price

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