Prayers for Bobby (2009)
Prayers for Bobby is a 2009 drama movie directed by Russell Mulcahy, with a running time of 1h 29m. It stars Sigourney Weaver, Henry Czerny and Ryan Kelley.
Walnut Creek, California, a devout household where faith is the air everyone breathes. Bobby Griffith is the bright, favored son, and he is also gay, carrying a secret he believes his family and their church could never hold. When he finally tells them, his mother Mary meets the news with scripture and the certainty that her son can be changed. The film sits inside that collision between a parent's love and a parent's belief, played with real ache by Sigourney Weaver, and drawn from the true story of one family trying and failing to understand its own child.
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What is Prayers for Bobby about?
Walnut Creek, California, a devout household where faith is the air everyone breathes. Bobby Griffith is the bright, favored son, and he is also gay, carrying a secret he believes his family and their church could never hold. When he finally tells them, his mother Mary meets the news with scripture and the certainty that her son can be changed. The film sits inside that collision between a parent's love and a parent's belief, played with real ache by Sigourney Weaver, and drawn from the true story of one family trying and failing to understand its own child.
When was Prayers for Bobby released?
Prayers for Bobby was released on 24 January 2009.
How long is Prayers for Bobby?
Prayers for Bobby runs 1h 29m.
Who made Prayers for Bobby?
Prayers for Bobby was directed by Russell Mulcahy.
Where can I watch Prayers for Bobby?
Prayers for Bobby is available on Hulu, Lifetime Movie Club, Lifetime Movie Club Amazon Channel, Lifetime Movie Club Apple TV Channel, Fawesome and Hoopla.
Where to watch Prayers for Bobby
Stream: Hulu, Lifetime Movie Club, Lifetime Movie Club Amazon Channel, Lifetime Movie Club Apple TV Channel
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Cast
- Sigourney Weaver as Mary Griffith
- Henry Czerny as Robert Griffith
- Ryan Kelley as Bobby Griffith
- Austin Nichols as Ed Griffith
- Carly Schroeder as Joy Griffith
- Scott Bailey as David
- Rebecca Louise Miller as Jeanette
- Shannon Eagen as Nancy Griffith
- Susan Ruttan as Betty Lambert
- Dan Butler as Reverend Whitsell
- Lee Garlington as Psychologist
- Madge Levinson as Ophelia
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A few thoughts on Prayers for Bobby
Adapted from Leroy Aarons's account of the Griffith family, this sits with the faith-and-acceptance dramas that treat both belief and a gay child's life as real and worth honoring. Bring tissues. It earns its emotion honestly rather than reaching for it, and Sigourney Weaver's turn as a mother reasoning her way through love is the reason to watch.
Dramas about family love strained close to breaking
Prayers for Bobby lives inside the collision between a mother's love and her certainty about who her son should be. These dramas turn on the same pressure, families held together by fierce affection and pulled apart by pride, belief or one choice nobody can take back.
Stories about being judged and searching for acceptance
Bobby Griffith carries a secret he believes his family and church could never hold, and the film sits with that loneliness. These titles follow other people boxed in by other people's judgment, aching to be seen and accepted for exactly who they are.
Emotional true-to-life dramas that end in hard-won hope
Drawn from a real story, Prayers for Bobby turns private grief into something that reaches outward. These dramas share that pull toward redemption after loss, wringing real feeling from ordinary people who keep going and try to make their pain mean something.