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Keeping the Faith

If there's one subject that Hollywood is generally bad at tackling, it is religion. The basic law of the Hollywood production machine is to create a product that appeals to the largest common base of people. It's okay to offend certain fringe groups because they probably don't go see movies very often anyway. But one must appeal to the masses, therefore it is difficult to commit to any one religi ... ...

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