Prayers for Bobby

Prayers for Bobby

She loves everything about her son...except who he is.

200989 min8.1 / 10

A deeply intimate, grief-stricken portrait of a mother's journey from religious rejection to acceptance, framed by the tragedy of her son's suicide.

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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