On Feb 15, 2006, at 7:56 PM, Shel Belinkoff wrote:
<ROTFL> Even the producer and director, as well as others close to the production, said it was never intended as a religious allegory. It was a lot simpler than that ... but both Wise and Blaustein said that if you read such things into the film, it was a good film, in that it made you think.
The director and writer were both on a recent TV documentary. They said they had to sneak the religious allegory past the producer and studio or the film would never have been made.
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