Sigourney Weaver Offers Prayers for Bobby
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Variety reports
Sigourney Weaver will co-produce and star in
Prayers for Bobby, about a conservative woman whose gay son takes his own life.
The Lifetime movie is based on Leroy Aarons' 1995 book (
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Russell Mulcahy - who directed Showtime's
Queer as Folk - will call the shots on the Lifetime telepic. -
J.R. Whalen
