2009 · drama · history · tv-movie
Prayers for Bobby
Directed by Russell Mulcahy1h 29m2009
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.
Our read: Prayers for Bobby (2009) reads as a heavy, measured, grounded drama · history · tv-movie entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Heavy, measured, measured drama / history, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
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