

Prayers for Bobby
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.
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- Language
- English
- coming out
- suicide
- based on novel or book
- parent child relationship
- homophobia
- christianity
- intolerance
- based on true story
- grief
- male homosexuality
- religion
- tragic event
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Release dates
United StatesUS
- TVThe Lifetime Network24 Jan 2009
- TheatricalPG27 Feb 2009
- PhysicalPG7 Dec 2010
- PhysicalPG15 Oct 2013
BelgiumBE
- Theatrical1424 Jan 2009
FranceFR
- TV20 Apr 2009
- Physical20 Oct 2010
GermanyDE
- Theatrical1217 Dec 2009
- Physical12Blu-ray27 Jul 2012
IrelandIE
- TheatricalPG24 Jan 2009
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Prayers for Bobby was released on 24 January 2009.
Audience reviews
2- T5/10
tmdb15214618
6/13/2018
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.
- K8/10
kinrich30
9/8/2026
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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