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Prayers for Bobby
Drama, History, TV Movie
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.
View on IMDbAppeals to viewers seeking an emotionally direct, issue-driven drama about parental love, religious conflict, and the painful consequences of rejection.
- Tone
- melancholic, bleak, sentimental
- Payoff
- heartbreak, catharsis
- Pacing
- steady
- Intensity
- harrowing
- Structure
- linear
- Themes
- family acceptance, religious belief, sexual identity, grief, social change
- Setting
- late twentieth-century, suburban American family and religious community
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