Alien, Ghostbusters, Gorillas in the Mist, Working Girl, The Ice Storm, and Avatar. But there's a television movie Weaver made over a decade ago that remains very dear to her: Prayers for Bobby.The 2009 Lifetime movie, directed by Russell Mulcahy and based on Leroy F.
Aarons's book, centers on Mary Griffith, a devout Christian mother who loses her gay son, the sweet, sensitive Bobby, to suicide.
Overcome by grief and guilt over her attempts to alter his homosexuality, Mary Griffith discovers PFLAG, as well as a new calling with LGBTQ+ activism.
Over a decade after Prayers for Bobby first aired and the film and Weaver were nominated for Emmys, the movie is being reaired by Lifetime, tonight at 8 p.m.