"Prayers for Bobby" is based on a true story adapted from the landmark Harper Collins book by journalist Leroy Aarons. Three time Academy Award nominee Sigourney Weaver stars as Mary Griffith, a profoundly religious wife and mother who began to question her faith after the suicide of her gay son Bobby (Ryan Kelley). Ultimately, with the posthumous acceptance of her son’s homosexuality, Mary drew on the strength and comfort from the gay community, particularly PFLAG, and became a staunch advocate for gay rights before passing away in 2020. Weaver earned Emmy® Award, Golden Globe Award and Screen Actors Guild Award nominations for her emotionally wrenching lead role. The film also received Emmy® Award ‘Outstanding Made for Television Movie’ and Producers Guild of America Award ‘Outstanding Producer of Long-Form Television’ nominations and the film won a GLAAD Media Award (Outstanding Movie). Dan Butler, Henry Czerny, Austin Nichols and Carly Schroeder also star. The cast also includes Madge Levinson, Lee Garlington, Susan Ruttan, Scott Bailey, Marshall McClean, Dan Wells and Melanie Wilson. "Prayers for Bobby" is produced by Once Upon A Time Films in association with Permut Presentations and Sladek Taaffe Productions for Lifetime Television. Damian Ganczewski is producer. Stanley M. Brooks, David Permut, Daniel Sladek and Chris Taaffe are executive producers. Russell Mulcahy directed from a script by Katie Ford.
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(L-R) Susan Ruttan, Dan Butler, Sigourney Weaver, Dan Wells.
Sigourney Weaver & Henry Czerny.
Shannon Eagen, Henry Czerny, Carly Schroeder, Austin Nichols.
Ryan Kelley.
Ryan Kelley, Henry Czerny and Sigourney Weaver.
Ryan Kelley and Scott Bailey.
Ryan Kelley as Bobby Griffith.
Ryan Kelley and Sigourney Weaver.
Austin Nichols and Ryan Kelley.
Ryan Kelley.
Sigourney Weaver and Ryan Kelley.
Rebecca Louise Miller and Ryan Kelley.
Sigourney Weaver and Susan Ruttan (right).
Ryan Kelley.
Dan Butler.
Ryan Kelley and Sigourney Weaver.
LGBTQ rights activists Mary Griffith & Leroy Aarons
Award-winning journalist Leroy F. Aarons (1933-2004) (photographed with Mary Griffith) left a legacy well beyond his profession. A national correspondent for the Washington Post during the 1970s Watergate scandals, an editor at the Oakland Tribune when the daily won a Pulitzer Prize and a founding board member of the Maynard Institute for Journalism Education (MIJE), Roy founded the National Lesbi
Mary Griffith, (photographed with husband Bob) who lost her gay son Bobby to suicide and subsequently became an advocate for LGBTQ youth rights, died at the age of 85 February of 2020. The story of Griffith and her son was told in Leroy Aarons's Harper Collins book Prayers for Bobby: A Mother's Coming to Terms With the Suicide of Her Gay Son. The book was adapted into a critically acclaimed, award
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