If you want to sit down for a rare grade A TV movie, i would highly suggest "Prayers For Bobby" with an amazingly gutsy performance by Sigourney Weaver.
Ms. Weaver plays an uber religious mother whose world is turned upside down when her son Bobby comes out of the closet as gay. For a good portion of the movie, we follow the clashes between Bobby and his mother, and the pressure against him gets so out of control that he takes his own life. From this tragedy, the character portrayed by Weaver begins to question everything she's known about the bible and religion in general.
Sigourney puts in such a great performance here. We hate her at first for being cold against her son, and by the end of the film, we feel sorry for her and shed a tear (buckets are very possible too!) in her honor. Henry Czerny is also reliable, and the young man who played Bobby showed great promise in an amazing performance.
In these days when vitriol against minorities is so out of hand, this movie becomes incredibly relevant, too bad this was a made for TV movie, it was based on a real life tragedy, and if it was in theaters and gained a larger audience, maybe some could put themselves in the shoes of Bobby and his mother. If you are in a similar situation and PFLAG, The Trevor Project or It Gets Better are out of the question, this movie can work as well. All is not lost, it truly does get better.
Prayers For Bobby, see it for an amazing performance by Weaver, and a truly inspiring, uplifting, and potentially life changing story.
Ms. Weaver plays an uber religious mother whose world is turned upside down when her son Bobby comes out of the closet as gay. For a good portion of the movie, we follow the clashes between Bobby and his mother, and the pressure against him gets so out of control that he takes his own life. From this tragedy, the character portrayed by Weaver begins to question everything she's known about the bible and religion in general.
Sigourney puts in such a great performance here. We hate her at first for being cold against her son, and by the end of the film, we feel sorry for her and shed a tear (buckets are very possible too!) in her honor. Henry Czerny is also reliable, and the young man who played Bobby showed great promise in an amazing performance.
In these days when vitriol against minorities is so out of hand, this movie becomes incredibly relevant, too bad this was a made for TV movie, it was based on a real life tragedy, and if it was in theaters and gained a larger audience, maybe some could put themselves in the shoes of Bobby and his mother. If you are in a similar situation and PFLAG, The Trevor Project or It Gets Better are out of the question, this movie can work as well. All is not lost, it truly does get better.
Prayers For Bobby, see it for an amazing performance by Weaver, and a truly inspiring, uplifting, and potentially life changing story.