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Posted: 1/16/10 at 11:06pm

**I know there is a thread but the search is acting up & won't open it for me.**

I just watched this today & have never cried more over a movie.

What are everyone else's thoughts?

Prayers For Bobby

Posted: 1/16/10 at 11:44pm

I think the movie is stunning with great performances. I wept also. I think it is among Sigourney Weaver's best work.

"The sexual energy between the mother and son really concerns me!"-random woman behind me at Next to Normal "I want to meet him after and bang him!"-random woman who exposed her breasts at Rock of Ages, referring to James Carpinello

Prayers For Bobby

Posted: 1/16/10 at 11:49pm

Agreed. I saw Avatar yesterday & this was just a complete 180 for her. I really hope she gets the Golden Globe tomorrow night.

Updated On: 1/16/10 at 11:49 PM

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Posted: 1/16/10 at 11:50pm

Agreed. One of the most powerful movies I've ever seen, television or otherwise.

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Posted: 1/16/10 at 11:55pm

I thought it should have been a mini-series. There was just too much of a 180 too fast. I know that they only had a small amount of time, but that's my recurring complaint with praying to accepting parent in most tv/movies. That said, it was beautiful and the acting superb.

Pretty pretty please don't you ever ever feel like you're less than f**ckin' perfect!

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Posted: 1/17/10 at 12:00am

I thought the acting (apart from Weaver) was pedestrian. 7TH HEAVEN acting, as I call it. And I agree, the movie moved too fast. But I liked the ending, when she spots a guy at the pride parade who resembles her son and she feels compelled to hug him.

Salve, Regina, Mater misericordiae
Vita, dulcedo, et spes nostra
Salve, Salve Regina
Ad te clamamus exsules filii Eva
Ad te suspiramus, gementes et flentes
O clemens O pia

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Posted: 1/17/10 at 8:23am

I wasn't so sure about the beginning of the movie (it just seemed a little over dramatic at first- although sadly I'm sure that IS very much reality for some young gay people), but by the end I thought it was so incredibly powerful. That speech at the end alone was enough to make it worth watching.

Definitely an amazing job from Sigourney Weaver!

I don't need a life that's normal. That's way too far away. But something next to normal would be okay. Something next to normal is what I'd like to try. Close enough to normal to get by.

Prayers For Bobby

Posted: 1/17/10 at 8:56am

The film itself might not be perfect, but Weaver's performance is extraordinary. Had it been released theatrically last year, she would certainly be an Oscar contender right now. I wish she had won the Emmy last year and I hope she takes the Golden Globe tonight.

"You travel alone because other people are only there to remind you how much that hook hurts that we all bit down on. Wait for that one day we can bite free and get back out there in space where we belong, sail back over water, over skies, into space, the hook finally out of our mouths and we wander back out there in space spawning to other planets never to return hurrah to earth and we'll look back and can't even see these lives here anymore. Only the taste of blood to remind us we ever existed. The earth is small. We're gone. We're dead. We're safe." -John Guare, Landscape of the Body

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Posted: 2/27/10 at 9:05pm

My bf and I finally watched this last night--it's been on the DVR for over a year. Just one of those things we've avoided. Much of that is that he knew it would be way too close to home for him.

As for the film, the first hour is dreadful. Terrible, terrible direction and acting. But the second hour was much better and quite devastating. Despite its faults and quite a bit of expected preachiness, it was very powerful (probably no worse than much of what is on Lifetime), and it is my hope that this film reaches many many Bobbys and Marys and others who need the message of this story.

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