6.9
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The Prodigal Son (1988)
The Prodigal Son (1988)
Overview
The Prodigal Son is a parable of a wayward son reunited with his father and family after having squandered all his inheritance through wasteful and idolatrous living. Learn of God’s encompassing love for those who humbly repent.
Starring Cast
Rating & Dimensions
Bias Rating
Analyzing...
Traditional
Political: Leans Right
Diversity: Low
Christianity: Positive
Viewer Rating
6.9
Overview
The Prodigal Son is a parable of a wayward son reunited with his father and family after having squandered all his inheritance through wasteful and idolatrous living. Learn of God’s encompassing love for those who humbly repent.
Starring Cast
Detailed Bias Analysis
Analyzing...
Traditional
Primary
The film's right-leaning bias stems from its direct adaptation of a biblical parable, emphasizing individual moral responsibility, the consequences of reckless living, and the solution of repentance and reconciliation within a traditional family structure.
The animated film presents its characters and narrative in a traditional manner, consistent with its biblical source material. Character depictions align with a mainstream animation style without explicit DEI-driven casting or visible diversity. The story focuses on its moral lesson, framing its traditional male roles neutrally or positively, without critiquing traditional identities or incorporating explicit DEI themes.
Secondary
The film is a direct animated adaptation of the biblical parable of the Prodigal Son, a foundational story in Christian theology. It affirms core Christian values of repentance, forgiveness, and unconditional love, portraying them with respect and dignity.
This animated short film directly adapts the biblical parable of the Prodigal Son. The narrative focuses solely on the original story, and no identifiable LGBTQ+ characters or themes are present in the film's plot or character arcs.
This animated short film is a direct adaptation of the biblical parable of the Prodigal Son. Its narrative focuses on themes of repentance, forgiveness, and familial love. There are no identifiable transsexual characters or themes present within the story.
The movie does not contain any action or adventure elements.
The film adapts the biblical parable of the Prodigal Son. The core characters—the father and his two sons—retain their established male genders from the source material, with no significant characters undergoing a gender change.
The film adapts the biblical parable of the Prodigal Son, where the characters' race is not specified in the source material. There is no established canonical or historical racial depiction for these archetypal figures that the 1988 animated film deviates from.
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