Prayers for Bobby (2009) Reviews & Ratings

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Prayers for Bobby reviews

Prayers for Bobby holds a 8.1/10 average from 653 TMDB ratings.

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.
— tmdb15214618 (5/10)

This was based on real events - a rather sad movie. When a woman mistakes religious dogma for religious faith, her son pays the price
— kinrich30 (8/10)

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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