2009
Prayers for Bobby
Drama, History, TV Movie
9.0
User Score
577 Votes
Status
Released
Language
en
Budget
$0
Production
Once Upon a Time Films, Sladek Taaffe Productions, Permut Presentations
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.
Review
tmdb15214618
5.0
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.
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