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- FLAWED BUT COMPLITED: ‘JOE BELL’ STARS MARK WAHLBERG AS A DAD ON A JOURNEY OF REGRET OVER HIS DEAD, GAY SON
- THE HEARTBREAKG TE STORY OF THE GAY TEEN AND HIS DAD BEHD ‘JOE BELL’
FLAWED BUT COMPLITED: ‘JOE BELL’ STARS MARK WAHLBERG AS A DAD ON A JOURNEY OF REGRET OVER HIS DEAD, GAY SON
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Cast & crewUser reviewsTriviaTV Movie2009TV-141h 30mPlay clip1:01Watch Prayers For Bobby: Don't Be AaidTe story of Mary Griffh, gay rights csar, whose teenage son mted suici due to her relig tolerance. Based on the book of the same tle by Leroy story of Mary Griffh, gay rights csar, whose teenage son mted suici due to her relig tolerance.
In January 2013, a gay 15-year-old named Jad Bell, om La Gran, Oregon, hanged himself om a piece of playground equipment and, after beg kept on life support for several weeks, died early Febary that year.
He was a sophomore high school. A gay son and his father who n bond over Lady Gaga lyrics.
THE HEARTBREAKG TE STORY OF THE GAY TEEN AND HIS DAD BEHD ‘JOE BELL’
In director Realdo Marc Green's movie Joe Bell (Mark Wahlberg), a dad who bonds wh his ad gay son, Jad Bell, over Lady Gaga. * gay suicide movies *
A gay son who ss on his father’s talks to the public and gets to offer his own criqu, potg out the ways that Joe has settled to a pattern of preachg to the choir: The people showg up at his talks, particularly once he’s gaed notoriety, already know what he’s about, and are already at mimum prepared to hear what he has to say. But what about the random homophob biker gear that Joe overhears spoutg sual hatred a der, or the people — there are many of them — who have nothg to offer Joe but nontatn?
And the qutns Jad’s ghost pos early the movie — of Joe’s tenncy to avoid the harr battl, failg to nont the homophob he enunters the wild favor of preachg to the choirs of people drawn to his onle phenomenon and, th, plsibly already sympathetic — are never really renciled by eher Joe or the movie. “It’s hard to stand strong plac where there are more church than there are gays, ” a man tendg a gay bar tells Joe after sharg his own g-out story.
“I never let him know was OK, ” says Joe, his enunter wh the kdly p who feeds him, a man whose own son, Joe learns, is also gay.