Very touching. It's the first movie in awhile that's gotten me teary-eyed. For a made-for-television movie, it's pretty well-made and acted, albeit about as melodramatic as a Lifetime movie.

A good TV movie about homosexuality and it's effect on the individual as well as the family.

Sad to see such acting and scrrenplay wasted in a mediocre TV movie...

This film has good intentions and I know it's based on a true story so it seems churlish to criticise it. But the first half of this film is so cliched: from the dialogue to the reactions of each character after the suicide. The older brother wailing on his knees on the football field? Puh-lease. But the second half of the film turns it around somewhat. Mary's journey from intolerant, anti-gay Christian to crusader for gay rights was fascinating and should have had more attention devoted to it.

It's too bad that a story like this got the usual cheesy tv-movie treatment. Like Milk and other gay-rights-themed works, it's not going to win any converts, no matter how many somber Thomas Newman-esque piano-and-strings cues we might hear. Sigourney Weaver did a great job, although after Bobby's suicide (brought on entirely by her intolerance) the film's attempt at making her character a sympathetic protagonist never seems quite successful.