Signs
Signs is a 2002 American science fiction horror film written and directed by M. Night Shyamalan and produced by Shyamalan, Frank Marshall, Kathleen Kennedy and Sam Mercer. The film was produced by Blinding Edge Pictures and The Kennedy/Marshall Company. It was distributed by Touchstone Pictures theatrically, and by Touchstone Home Entertainment in home media format. Starring Mel Gibson and Joaquin Phoenix, the story focuses on a former Episcopal priest named Graham Hess who discovers a series of crop circles in his cornfield and that the phenomenon is a result of extraterrestrial life. Signs explores the themes of faith, kinship and extraterrestrials.
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| Written by | M. Night Shyamalan
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| Running time | 106 minutes
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| Country | United States
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| Budget | $72 million
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| Box office | $408.2 million
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Bo: It tastes funny.
(Morgan takes a sip)
Morgan: It does not. It's just tap water. Besides, he licks his butt every day, I don't think he'll mind.
- In the part of the "Brazilian Video" the anchorwoman says the video was taped in Passo Fundo city that means "Deep Step", and what the boy's saying all the time is "It's behind that garage".
- Joaquin Phoenix replaced Mark Ruffalo, who had to pull out of the film due to a brain tumor. It was later found to be benign.
- M. Night Shyamalan didn't want the trailers to make any reference to The Sixth Sense (1999) because he felt it didn't trust what was to come next. That it didn't give the film its own life, and audiences would assume Signs (2002) was exactly the same type of film as The Sixth Sense (1999).
- Graham Hess was originally written as an older character. Paul Newman was offered the role but turned it down, as did Clint Eastwood.
- The Hess family hides in the basement, which Graham Hess says was once used for coal storage. In H.G. Wells's "The War of the Worlds", the main character hides from the aliens in a coal shed.
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