Signs

“It's not like they didn't warn us.”

A former priest named Graham Hess (Mel Gibson) finds crop circles in his cornfield and learns that extraterrestrial creatures are arriving. He and his brother Merrill (Joaquin Phoenix) barricade the farmhouse with Graham's two children as the aliens draw closer, each family member moving through the hours in mounting fear. The film suggests that survival depends less on weapons than on what each person is willing to believe in.