“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.
Where to Watch
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Cast & Crew
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
Marshall McClean
Reverend Owens
Anna Badalamenti
Michelle
Ele Bardha
Doug
Linda Boston
Marge
Marty Bufalini
Councilman
Sonja Crosby
Celeste
Bryan Fox
Greg
Colleen Gentry
Citizen
Ed Kelly
Minister
Andrew Kruczynski
Football Player
Rusty Mewha
Rev. Michaels
Julia Mogerman
Teri
Story & Production Details
Reviews & Thoughts
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.
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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