ABSTRACT
The God in the movies is closer to the image of God in the Jewish and Christian heritages than the God of the surveys. The God of the movies is the God Americans might like to believe in though not the God many Americans feel they have to believe in. Sometimes God in the Movies is portrayed by a human actor. Sometimes God is present merely as a force or an energy, often by light or as a lacy white cloud as in Truly, Madly, Deeply. Sometimes God lurks just beneath the story as in Flatliners or The Rapture or Breaking the Waves. Some will think that it is blasphemous to seek God in the Movies. God is beyond human utterance. To see humans as representatives of God is idolatry. Some academics will think that it is traitorous to pretend that there is a God.
