Prayers for Bobby

[Rick336]

Prayers for Bobby comes on this Saturday night at 9:00 PM on "Lifetime". It's about a mother dealing with her gay son coming out.

Here's info about the story--> http://www.mylifetime.com/on-tv/movies/prayers-bobby

It comes on again on Sunday night and again on Tuesday.


Rick

[antiochian]

Yes, I definitely plan on watching it. Read the book years ago, it was so moving... and heart-breaking.

[pnggrad79]

I am going to watch it. I think Bobby commits suicide and his mother, like Mary Lou Wallner, regrets her condemnation of him (as with Mary Lou's daughter). It should be a good movie.

[philip3gw]

I read the PFLAG book about three years ago that has the true story "Prayers for Bobby" in it but I can't remember the the title to the book. Does anyone know the book title?

[u-dog]

Originally Posted by philip3gw

I read the PFLAG book about three years ago that has the true story "Prayers for Bobby" in it but I can't remember the the title to the book. Does anyone know the book title?

I think its called "Prayers for Bobby" . Polly and I watched it last night also and "Lifetime formula" or not ... we wept too. Sigourney Weaver is a good actress even when the monster she is fighting doesn't jump out of somebody's chest and have big slimey teeth.

[Daniel]

The first installment online at Lifetime just now. It's all I could sit through so far. Have to ask myself why this is. And the answer is that it hits close to home.

I grew up in the time period the film is set in. And while my mother wasn't the fire breathing, bible quoting monster that Weaver portrays, the fundi part is the same.

The film gives me the willies, to put it simply. If there is such a thing as time travel, this movie is it.

Love Sigourney. She eats up film with a ferocity that always is a joy to behold.

I read an interview at the Advocate online tonight where she talked about being in Bobby's bedroom and that it was important to 'get it right'. Well. I can see that she does from the get-go.

Bet I will cry that the rest of you. And get mad. All over again. For the years lost in pain and fear.

[Jennifer5]

Originally Posted by Daniel

The first installment online at Lifetime just now. It's all I could sit through so far. Have to ask myself why this is. And the answer is that it hits close to home.

I grew up in the time period the film is set in. And while my mother wasn't the fire breathing, bible quoting monster that Weaver portrays, the fundi part is the same.

The film gives me the willies, to put it simply. If there is such a thing as time travel, this movie is it.

Love Sigourney. She eats up film with a ferocity that always is a joy to behold.

I read an interview at the Advocate online tonight where she talked about being in Bobby's bedroom and that it was important to 'get it right'. Well. I can see that she does from the get-go.

Bet I will cry that the rest of you. And get mad. All over again. For the years lost in pain and fear.

As hard as it may be, at some point you should try watching it in one sitting. I was getting interrupted a lot and I felt like I didn't get the full effect, so I'm going to watch it again soon. I can see why that would be hard for many, like you though.

Let us know what you think of it.

[Zerbie]

Originally Posted by Daniel

The first installment online at Lifetime just now. It's all I could sit through so far. Have to ask myself why this is. And the answer is that it hits close to home.

I grew up in the time period the film is set in.

The film gives me the willies, to put it simply. If there is such a thing as time travel, this movie is it.

Bet I will cry that the rest of you. And get mad. All over again. For the years lost in pain and fear.

((((((((( Daniel! )))))))))
:l ove:

[Jennifer5]

I'm watching it at the moment... what did everyone else think of it?

[Jennifer5]

That movie was incredible! I managed to hold back the tears in the first several upsetting scenes, but still ended up crying in the end.

I will definitely be watching it again very soon!


Watch the whole thing online for free at www.mylifetime.com

[Xero Eclipse]

Nashville's PFLAG and my University's GSA, Lambda, hosted a screening of the movie on campus, and we had 20-30 people show up (although we could have accommodated a hundred). It was fantastic, although I was crying like a leaky faucet throughout because of the similar experiences I have been through, but I had my boyfriend there to hold my hand and lean-on, so it was all okay.

Apparently my Southern Baptist parents and brother watched the movie at home ort least partially for my brother as he was also on the computer (and my dad only saw the second half of it), but my mother was apparently distraught and in tears too from watching it. I was really impressed that she watched it of her own accord AND had my high school freshman brother in the room too. Kudos to them all, and they thought it was a good movie too.

Silly story: Boyfriend apparently knows the formula for Lifetime movies, and at the very end when the mother embraces the boy, I start bawling as he tries to tell me that it was a spot-on Lifetime ending like he predicted, to which I tried to "shh" him because I was experiencing the moment. Haha.