The Seventh Sign
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| Directed by | Carl Schultz |
| Produced by | Ted Field Robert W. Cort |
| Written by | Clifford Green Ellen Green |
| Starring | Demi Moore Michael Biehn Jürgen Prochnow |
| Music by | Jack Nitzsche |
| Cinematography | Juan Ruiz Anchia |
| Editing by | Caroline Biggerstaff |
| Studio | Interscope Communications |
| Distributed by | TriStar Pictures |
| Release date(s) | April 1, 1988 |
| Running time | 97 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Box office | $18,875,011 |
The Seventh Sign is a 1988 apocalyptic drama film written by Clifford and Ellen Green and directed by Carl Schultz.
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[edit] Plot
Signs of the apocalypse are appearing, along with a mysterious wanderer. Father Lucci (Peter Friedman) is the Vatican official investigating them. He dismisses the occurrences as natural, but Abby Quinn (Demi Moore) believes that they are real.
In the film, Jürgen Prochnow portrays Jesus' return to Earth in the year 1988 to judge humanity. The final judgment is averted by an act of faith that prevents the final sign of the apocalypse from occurring. In the film, through a flashback, Prochnow also portrays the original Jesus on the eve of his crucifixion. Father Lucci is revealed to be Cartaphilus, a Roman Centurion and Pilate's porter who struck Jesus before his death and was sentenced to wander the Earth until Christ returned to judge mankind. The Lucci-Cartaphilus character is a combination of the Longinus and the Wandering Jew legends. In the movie Abby, who is soon to give birth, discovers that she is actually the reborn woman some identify as Seraphia, the woman who offered Christ water during the Crucifixion but was turned away by Cartaphilus. She finds out that the prophecies lead up to the birth of her child who may not survive because there will be no more souls left for the newborns unless someone offers their own.
[edit] Cast
- Demi Moore as Abby Quinn
- Michael Biehn as Russell Quinn
- Jürgen Prochnow as David Bannon
- Peter Friedman as Father Lucci
[edit] Release
The film was released theatrically in the United States by TriStar Pictures in April 1988. It grossed $18,875,011 at the box office.[1]
The film was released on DVD in the United States by Sony Pictures Home Entertainment in 1998.[2]
[edit] References
- ^ "The Seventh Sign". boxofficemojo.com. http://boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=seventhsign.htm. Retrieved 2011-04-13.
- ^ "The Seventh Sign (DVD)". dvdempire.com. http://www.dvdempire.com/Exec/v4_item.asp?item_id=2758. Retrieved 2011-04-13.
[edit] See also
[edit] External links
- The Seventh Sign at the Internet Movie Database
- The Seventh Sign at Rotten Tomatoes
- The Seventh Sign Review by Roger Ebert
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