A Mother's Prayer

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| image = MothersPrayervideorental.jpg

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| caption = Video release

| genre = Drama

| creator =

| based_on =

| writer = Lee Rose

| screenplay =

| story =

| director = Larry Elikann

| starring = Linda Hamilton
Kate Nelligan
S. Epatha Merkerson
Bruce Dern
RuPaul
Alex Kapp Horner
Noah Fleiss
Jenny O'Hara

| narrated =

| theme_music_composer = Tom Scott

| country = United States

| language = English

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| executive_producer = Lee Rose

| producer = Sally Young

| editor = Peter V. White

| cinematography = Eric Van Haren Noman

| runtime = 94 minutes

| company = MCA Television Entertainment

| budget =

| network = USA Network

| released = {{Start date|1995|08|02}}

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A Mother's Prayer is a 1995 film made for the USA Network starring Linda Hamilton, in a Golden Globe-nominated performance, as a woman who learns she has contracted the AIDS virus and must make plans for the care of her only son. The film, which counts Kate Nelligan, S. Epatha Merkerson and Bruce Dern in its supporting cast, premiered on August 2, 1995. It was eventually expanded, given a PG-13 rating and released on VHS via MCA/Universal Home Entertainment in 1996.{{cite news|title=Linda Hamilton trades in buffed bod for AIDS role|journal=USA Today|date=July 31, 1995|url=https://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/USAToday/access/19371334.html?dids=19371334:19371334&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&type=current&date=Jul+31%2C+1995&author=Peter+Johnson%3B+Jefferson+Graham%3B+Matt+Roush%3B+Alan+Bash&pub=USA+TODAY+(pre-1997+Fulltext)&desc=Linda+Hamilton+trades+in+buffed+bod+for+AIDS+role&pqatl=google|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121106095233/http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/USAToday/access/19371334.html?dids=19371334:19371334&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&type=current&date=Jul+31,+1995&author=Peter+Johnson%3B+Jefferson+Graham%3B+Matt+Roush%3B+Alan+Bash&pub=USA+TODAY+(pre-1997+Fulltext)&desc=Linda+Hamilton+trades+in+buffed+bod+for+AIDS+role&pqatl=google|url-status=dead|archive-date=November 6, 2012}}