Sigourney Weaver Accepts an Award for Prayers for Bobby at the 21st Annual GLAAD Media Awards

[DrFlippin]

a must see film for Rick Santorum, Mitt Romney and other leaders of the religious right. Homosexuality, transgender, etc are not illnesses needing to be cured. Ignorance that leads to intolerance for fellow citizens is what needs to be 'cured'. Being gay or lesbian is no different than being racially black, hispanic, asian, etc. Original sin rears its ugly head when Christians invoke God & Truth when they rail against what is unfamiliar and different to them.

[Amyarelxxx]

Waw it made me cry ..

[Valecita483]

If anything, I am truly grateful for this movie, and for Sigourney Weaver for playing Bobby's mother in such a way that had me crying with every word good and bad tears. This movie should be played everywhere, especially in schools, to parents and children alike, to show the consequences of careless and shameless hate to every person in the LGBTQA community. This, I hope, will change parents and youth's view on homosexuality so that we can one day all live in peace and love, no matter what.

[TiinaBalleriiina]

She is so amazing, her performance should be remembered forever because it truly was unforgettable. I'll never forget how much that movie made me cry, it was just one of those movies, that will always move you to tears.

[816cameron]

Sigourney was STUNNING in this movie. The scene where she gets up and speaks before the local Walnut Creek City Council is breath taking and it will CRUSH you. I was so disappointed when she did not win the Emmy for this role.

[EnigmaticApathy]

I went from despising the mother to really feeling for her. She's a great actress :)

[js17lt]

I am deeply thank you for the director, writer, actor/actress, all who brings up this true story about Bobby.

I know it sound funny as who I am to be one to say so, but I am deeply feel the story is similarly to my life as a gay.

Hurt most was when One need another One love but the one was just away & having fun with others and left Bobby alone while Bobby need is love from the one who he trusted his love to.

Marry Griffin is a Great mother.

[Marchant2]

When an actor gives a performance that creates an epiphany for many who come to see, then that actor is an artist in his or her craft no less than a Picasso or a Chopin. Weaver has demonstrated this talent more than once.

[Marchant2]

When an actor gives a performance that creates an epiphany for many who come to see, then that actor is an artist in his or her craft no less than a Picasso or a Chopin. Weaver has demonstrated this talent more than once.

[UniversalMinded]

i have the whole aliens collection on dvd

[Spb1312]

Fine strong film!!! THANKS!!! Who understand-that will understand. It is given not to everyone!!! GOD of it doesn't understand... Unfortunately... It is a pity... Tears flow falls... Greetings from Russia!!!

[tesolonaki]

She is an excelent actress and here she was wonderfull and her sensibility is great too. Thanks Sigourney for been that way!!!

And all of us, please, help our children no matter what they do or act...

[newpn2000]

A great great movie! Sigourney at her best!

[servalmcr]

this is a well deserve award, seriously I cried so hard watching prayers for Bobby :'(

[skatergeek19811]

She is just grace personified!

[launwatch]

SHEER class & dignity & kindness.

[sexipants]

Sigourney, and the other guys there, you're all golden.

[lunaandproud]

We (the community ) should get together to remake this movie in various languages!!!!!!!!!

[8mad]

She did a fantastic job in the movie she honestly deserved that award.

[DevoursCake]

Really touching movie. All the actors/actresses were fantastic and Sigourney definetely played her part well. Love her

[zeroendless2]

This movie seriously made me cry. Its such a great movie.

[bfold11]

the characters she played couldn't have been an easy one, so kudos to her GREAT performance in prayers for bobby

[akatsuki2923]

She is just so real

[swedelunkan]

i love her

[Zencba]

Go Ripley!!

[PopCulture1980]

I love you Sigourney Weaver!!!!!!!!!!!

[LUISRO620]

good movie i also cried, it just remembered me my mother in all the movie and i thought, could that happen to me? What would she do if i tell her i'm gay?

[sveria1210]

I only wish this movie had been developed on the big screen.

[TheGreenguy15]

@sveria1210 thats true...

[tripjet999]

I would be concerned enough to change my son if he started to turn conservative/republicon!

[SeducingEyes]

@Sidney38SNJ the movie made me cry..I tried not to...but I couldn't help myself!! It was a good touching movie and broke my heart as well!!

[CesMan83]

My favorite actress ever! Sigourney Weaver, to me, is like the female Harrison Ford: she's highly adept at playing larger-than-life characters (i.e. Ripley from "Alien" or Dana from "Ghostbusters") or more down-to-earth realistic ones like Mary Griffith from "Prayers for Bobby" or Dian Fossey from "Gorillas in the Midst"...is there any role that this fine actor CANNOT do?

[louis250994]

Sigourney Weaver is really amazing

[lesliexhale]

I really think it's stupid to bash religion when there's a bigger picture to learn. Whether you believe in god or not doesn't mean you should bash it and yes I get it, a lot of people go psycho when it comes to religion. She made a mistake that lead to greater consequences but before you start bashing someone else for what they did maybe you should think about the mistakes you made or will make that could have great consequences too.

[Meskiagkasher]

@blainebill39 what do you mean? even before the age of 10 i realized that religion is made-up crap and that the biblical god is a vile and violent character, far away from the "love-thy-neighbor" pretense of the abrahamic religions. it's all *obvious* horse shit and anybody with an IQ over 5 should notice that.

and rejecting her own child based on faith in a non-existing god means that the rejection is not based in the god but in fact in her own attitude. after all the time she's still guilty.

[Meskiagkasher]

Mary Griffith killed her own son for a non-existing god. If there were a hell, she would burn in it. Rightfully.

[RothdeMan]

@Meskiagkasher Who are you to pass judgment on her? If their is a God, then you obviously need to get to know Him. Mary is not unlike many parents whom do not know how to deal. And yes, she made a mistake, but she realized it and made amends. Nothing can ever bring her Bobby back, but telling her story can spare the Mary's and Bobby's of the world the pain they both suffered.

[Meskiagkasher]

@RothdeMan she made her son kill himself. she is dirt. nothing she does will ever change that except bringing back her son.

and the worst part is that she did it for an imaginary deity of vile and violent character. what an uneducated and unenlightened cunt.

[blainebill39]

@Meskiagkasher I would not wish the kind of suffering

she inflicted on Bobby and herself, on anyone! Believe me when I tell you, that Mary

took all the outrage you now express and transformed it into real social and political

action, resulting in lasting change!

Blaine

[blainebill39]

@Meskiagkasher

Your rhetoric is way over the top however, I too was angry at her! But this

was more than 27yrs ago! I had loved her son but had come from a far different

family situation than Bobby, and was far too young myself to understand his anguish!

The character that Weaver plays, from what I've seen in these clips, does not in any

way represent who Mary Griffith is today! Yes, I was contemptuous of how she treated

Bobby in 1983, her ignorance was reprehensible!

[Meskiagkasher]

@blainebill39 time does not unmake or diminish her crime. whatever she does or is today, does not unmake the death of her son.

there is just no way to forgive anyone for crimes like hers. she should have been charged with some form of manslaughter.

[blainebill39]

@Meskiagkasher

Sir! So redemption is not possible? Mary was not a filicide, or perhaps you

believe otherwise? Nothing can "unmake" the death of Bobby, but she did not

push off that freeway overpass! Her illinformed beliefs, regarding her faith, did

in all likelihood drive him to despair, leading to his horrific end.Something she

would be the first to acknowledge. Is there no way to atone? If not, you would

apperar to hold her to a very strange standard!

Blaine

[Meskiagkasher]

@blainebill39 oh yes, she pushed him off that overpass with her idiotic infantile unenlightened faith. there is no atonement for putting a fake god over one's own child. she should have been thrown from that overpass, just so she felt the worthlessness and helplessness that her boy felt.

And you? You say you knew him. What exactly did *you* do?

[blainebill39]

@Meskiagkasher

When I hadn't heard from

him for awhile, I made that terrible call to his familys' home, where his brother ED

gave me the news. I was 19yrs old and in shock! Yeah, I guess at the time, I would

have liked to have Mary thrown off the "Tarpein Rock" as it were, but to what end?

It would not have brought Bobby back!

Blaine

[blainebill39]

@Meskiagkasher

I dated bobby from about the time i was 17 to just before he left for Oregon.

I had been openly gay all throughout high school, so I was all too familiar with

the marginalization that queer people endured at that time! Though I tried keeping

in touch with Bobby, I was in no position to follow him!

[blainebill39]

@Meskiagkasher Though I can't concure with your assessment of Mary Griffith, I am grateful for the vehemence, if not disgust, that you've expressed regarding what happened to Bobby. It perfectly illustrates the sea change or "paridigm shift" if you will, in thought and attitude that has occured! At the time of Bobbys' suicide, it received almost no coverage here, in the place of his upbringing! What a different time it was! Cheers! Blaine

[Meskiagkasher]

@blainebill39 If the movie is even slightly accurate then Mary Griffith is human dirt. Even if her son had not committed suicide she would still be an adherent of a vile and violent, and above all fabricated, deity. She has the same mind-set of those who fly planes into buildings.

[blainebill39]

@Meskiagkasher

Wow! Even if I could find some way in which to at least sympathize

with your statement regarding Marys' "mindset" , I would still have to

characterize in the past tense! Yes, she "did" have an appalling mindset!

Blaine

[XforeverlongingX]

@blainebill39 "but she did not

push off that freeway overpass! Her illinformed beliefs, regarding her faith, did" um. No. She did.

[blainebill39]

@XforeverlongingX

Yes, and my friend she would today, willingly acknowledge, the role

the illinformed beliefs she once held, played in her sons' death!

Blaine

[XforeverlongingX]

@blainebill39 You put an exclamation mark at the end of your comment to make it as though you need to speak louder to get a point across to me? Guess what, you just changed your argument completely. You said that "she did not push off that freeway overpass! Her illinformed beliefs, regarding her faith, did" Now you say "Yes" to what I said, which goes against what you said, and said she'd admit it played a role. We're not talking about a role. We're talking about who's GUILTY of a crime.

[blainebill39]

@XforeverlongingX I stated

to that person that she did not in fact push him off that bridge, any more that than

one can pull a triger for someone that shoots themselves. The most germain idea that I was

attempting to convey was that, had Mary not experienced the epiphanous change

of heart that had driver her to work toward the prevention of the loss of other young lives,

this entire story might likely have never been told!

Blaine

[blainebill39]

@XforeverlongingX If you will examine the discourse that I engaged in, over a month ago,

you will find it was between myself and someone who believed that Mary

deserved to die the same way as her son. I was simply trying to plead that

Mary was in fact no longer the over zealous practicioner of a dogmatic faith,

she had once been.

[blainebill39]

@XforeverlongingX

My friend, it must simply be our different or nuanced use of language.

For myself, unless they are in poetry or other forms of literature, "beliefs"

are abstract as well as inanimate and cannot push any one off of a bridge.

As a young man, I had loved Marys Griffiths' son deeply and had every right at the

time to direct my anger toward her, had I chosen to do so. Her part in Bobbys'

suicide was reprehensible, but to me ultimately forgivable!

[816cameron]

EVERYONE should see this movie; then look within and ask yourself, "How can I change the outcome of this story?" Sigourney was brilliant in this movie. I've never hated a character so much, and then later wanting to hold her in my arms and take away her pain. Absolutely brilliant role. She should have won the Emmy she was nominated for in this role.

[xcountrygrl]

: ) i am such a fan of Sigourney Weaver

[skatergeek19811]

@xcountrygrl Isn't she just darling? I can't get enough of Ziggy (that's what I affectionately call her)

[cadreychasd]

@xcountrygrl Im on there!

[driftingdrought]

Amazing, moving, beautiful movie. You deserve it, Sigourney. Well done.