By Lisa Respers France, CNN
None of the movies nominated for a best film Academy Award this year have been labeled “religious,” but many have deeply spiritual overtones.
Even “Toy Story 3?” Yes, even that wildly popular animated film manages to sneak in a message about faith and friendship.
“It’s kind of an unusual year – almost all of the top films have relatively little explicit religious dimensions to them,” said Brent Plate, a writer who teaches religious studies at Hamilton College in Clinton, New York. “But these films are asking the same questions that religions ask: Where did we come from, how did we get here, where are we going and who are we?”
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