Young Artist Award |
| Best Actress Under Ten in a Motion Picture |
| Best Youth Actor Co-Starring in a Motion Picture Drama |
'Family Prayer' is allegedly a bildungsromane plot applied to a film. That is, that the young central character (though not really central here), in his coming-of-age or rites-of-passage experiences, exhibits a self-actualization and understanding of his surroundings, though not without difficulty, on a level much deeper than what is often expected of his age.
This coming of age story set in the 1960s takes a look at the effects of a couple's break-up on a sensitive, thirteen year old Jewish boy in the 1960s. The story is effectively told from the teenager's point-of-view--the script is sharp and offers insight into the difficulties young people often face when they are forced to make that transition into adulthood.
