6.9
Viewer Rating
Combines user and critic ratings from four sources
The Prodigal Son (1988)
Bias Rating
Analyzing...
Traditional
Viewer Rating
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
Bias Dimensions
Political: Leans Right
Diversity: Low
Christianity: Positive
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 narrative, a direct adaptation of a biblical parable, champions themes of individual responsibility, repentance, and the restoration of traditional family values through forgiveness, aligning with conservative social ethics.
This animated adaptation of The Prodigal Son features character designs consistent with traditional Western interpretations of biblical figures, without explicit modern diversity. The narrative focuses on universal themes of family and forgiveness, and does not critique or center on traditional identities or 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.
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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