
Feature 5 of 17 · 2002
Signs
It's not like they didn't warn us.
Aug. 2, 2002106 minPG-13Written & directed by M. Night Shyamalan
The film
The story
One morning the Hess family wakes up 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 the news as crop circles are soon found all over the world. Signs is the emotional story of one family on one farm as they encounter the possibility the world is being invaded.
Key dates
On the calendar
Aug22002
Signs opened in theaters
Jan72003
Signs came out on VHS and DVD
Jun32008
Signs came out on Blu-ray
“See, what you have to ask yourself is what kind of person are you? Are you the kind that sees signs, sees miracles? Or do you believe that people just get lucky?”
Quotes
All 45 quotes →What they said
“[As the creature threatens to poison Morgan, Graham spies the baseball bat on the wall near Merrill]Graham
Swing away, Merrill.
[Merrill continues staring at the creature and Morgan]
Merrill. Swing away.”
“Everybody in this house needs to calm down, eat some fruit or something.”Graham
“[The family is watching a news report about strange hovering lights in the sky] The nerds were right. It's like War of the Worlds.”Merrill
“You're wasting your time here! I'm not going to report this or anything you do to my crops. To the news or TV, or anybody. You're not going to get famous!”Graham
Quotes from Wikiquote, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Cast
Full cast (12) →Who’s who
Crew
Behind it
- Written & directed by
- M. Night Shyamalan
- Music
- James Newton Howard
Full cast & crew at MovieForums.
Stills
All stills →From the reel
Box office
The numbers
Domestic gross$228MNo. 2 of Night’s 15 films with box office figures
Budget$72M
Against his other films
The Sixth Sense$293.5M
Signs$228M
Split$138.3M
The Last Airbender$131.8M
The Village$114.2M
Glass$111M
Unbreakable$95M
The Visit$65.2M
The Happening$64.5M
After Earth$60.5M
Old$48.3M
Trap$42.8M
Lady in the Water$42.3M
Knock at the Cabin$35.4M
Wide Awake$282K
Source: Box Office Mojo. Domestic = US and Canada.







