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Name: Signs
Released: 2002-8-2
Cast: Mel Gibson, Joaquin Phoenix, Cherry Jones, Rory Culkin, Abigail Breslin

Signs

PG-13
1h 46m
2002

74%

age 14+

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From writer/director M. Night Shyamalan, comes the story of the Hess family in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, who wake up one morning to find a 500-foot crop circle in their backyard. Graham Hess (Mel Gibson) and his family are told extraterrestrials are responsible for the sign in their field. They watch, with growing dread, the news of crop circles being found all over the world. SIGNS is the emotional story of one family on one farm as they encounter the terrifying last moments of life as the world is being invaded.

Rotten Tomatoes® Score

TOMATOMETER®

74%

Critics Consensus: With Signs, Shyamalan proves once again an expert at building suspense and giving audiences the chills.

Reviews

Battleship Pretension

Jim Rohner

I'm a sucker for an effective scary movie that involves aliens and if you're gonna tell me that you didn't jump during that scene in the basement with the alien arm, I'm gonna call you a liar.

A filmmaker who here has refined his forms to distill the very essence of his way of understanding cinema. [Full Review in Spanish]

Signs is a tense experience; even the opening credits lunge at your throat with orchestral shrieks. It may one day reveal itself as a minor classic, a new Invasion of the Body Snatchers for the manufactured scare of its day.

An emotional, yet old-fashioned scary movie punctuated with terror and psychological suspense, Signs will have you holding your breath, biting your nails and sitting on the edge of your seat - even long after the film has ended.

It's the content that's to blame. Signs works on a confused storyboard. What's Shyamalan trying to say anyways? Nothing, or rather a bit too much.

January 3, 2019

FULL REVIEW

Common Sense Media

age 14+

Common Sense Says

Suspenseful Shyamalan movie has extreme tension and peril.

What Parents Need to Know

Parents need to know that Signs is a 2002 suspense movie in which a man who has given up being a minister in the wake of the tragic car accident that took his wife must come to grips with his faith as he and his family try to make sense of what appears to be an impending alien invasion. There is some violence -- a boy must kill one of his family's dogs after it turns violent, a man must fight an alien with a baseball bat. There is also demonic alien imagery and sound effects that happen more often as the story builds to its climax. Throughout, there is extreme tension and peril; while it's not graphic nor gory, some viewers will find it very scary. There is also some profanity throughout: "bitch," "ass," "s--t," "crap," "bulls--t," "piss." Some will be comforted by the movie's ultimate conclusion, but others will find it disappointing, even sugary or superficial.