
2009 | 1h 29m
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.
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.
David

Rebecca Louise Miller
Jeanette

Shannon Eagen
Nancy Griffith

Susan Ruttan
Betty Lambert

Dan Butler
Reverend Whitsell

Lee Garlington
Psychologist
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