The Seventh Sign Page #4

Synopsis: In Haiti, the sea and the life-form die; in the Middle East, a town is frozen. These are signs of the Apocalypse and the Vatican is investigating, but Father Lucci advises that these omens are hoax or technologically explained. In California, the housewife Abby Quinn is pregnant and the delivery is scheduled to February, 29 in a leap year. Her husband, the lawyer Russell Quinn, is defending a weird case of the teenager Jimmy Szaragosa that killed his parents telling that he was following the Word of God. Meanwhile Abby rents a garage apartment to the mysterious David Bannon. The hopeless Abby has strange nightmares and soon she finds that around the world there are signs of the Apocalypse in accordance with the Book of Revelation. She learns also that David Bannon is Jesus that has returned; Father Lucci is the Pilate's porter Cartaphilus that was doomed to wander on Earth for the eternity; and she is a woman that tried to help Jesus. Further, she is the Seventh Sign and the Apocalypse
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Director(s): Carl Schultz
Production: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
  1 win & 1 nomination.
 
IMDB:
5.9
Rotten Tomatoes:
19%
R
Year:
1988
97 min
319 Views


All right? I promise.

Sorry, Russell, sorry. He wouldn't wait.

He said to call him...

Oh, Christ!

Keep working on this

and Ill try him from home.

Russell, Russell. Are you here?

- You not gonna kill my baby.

- Your baby is dying because it has no soul.

- Dont say that.

- Abby. The Guf is empty!

I know what you are trying to do.

I wont let you kill my baby.

Dont you think I cry for man?

Ive tried to intercede, but God has judged!

- Mans sins are...

- Stay away!

I cant die again, Abby. I wish I could.

- Im His messenger.

- You're crazy.

- I was here before.

- Stay away.

It's time for you to know, Abby.

I came as the Lamb...

...and I return as the Lion.

Now I am His wrath.

Strap her down!

This is happening!

Why won't you believe me?

You have to believe me.

Please.

Will you die for Him?

Russell. I don't know what you could have done.

This can happen.

I know the delusions seem extreme,

but shes under enormous amount of stress.

Theres incredible amount of guilt involved when...

Well, you certainly know the history.

What do we do now?

This sounds pathetic, but the best

we can do is wait and see. Just watch her.

Look. The babys fine. He's hanging in there.

If this is just an episode,

she can go home in a couple of days.

Will you be able to stay with her?

- Not all the time.

- Then we should get you a nurse to help.

And I think you should go home now

and get some serious rest.

Of course, we believe the God will judge the world.

- It could it be happening now?

- It could happen any time.

Jesus said the end would come

like a thief in the night.

That belief is fundamental virtually

to every religion.

Muslim, Christian, Jew, Hindu.

There are differences amongst them

as to how it will actually happen...

...but we all believe in a Messiah

who delivers Gods wrath...

...upon the world.

Then it could be happening.

I mean. The moon has turned to blood.

I told you about the paper and the fish.

Yes. In Revelation,

it is written that the sea will die.

- Then you do see it?

- With perfect clarity.

I see a young man

with a very large imagination.

What youre forgetting Avi, is that

the prophetic signs are signs.

Theyre symbols.

They're not meant to be taken literally.

Theyre poetry written by the great prophets to describe

the greater concept of divine judgment...

...not to be checked off like a laundry list.

So the moon and the fish?

Coincidence. And youre forgetting

the most important aspect of eschatology.

That when the end comes,

with it comes eternal life...

...for those of us who are saved.

Well, wholl be saved, Reverend?

I mean. The Jew doesnt think

it's gonna be the Muslim.

The Muslim doesnt think

it's gonna be the Christian.

The Christian doesnt think

it's gonnal be the Buddhist.

So, what if nobody is saved?

What if were all wrong?

My God. What if its just

the Hare Krishnas?

- Youre too young to worry about this things.

- That's what my rabbi said.

Believe me, Avi,

someday youll make quite a philosopher.

If there is a someday.

Hello, Mr. Quinn. Shes fine.

I'm sorry. Could you give me that number again?

When? Well, I have to leave.

No, its impossible...

No, shes upstairs resting.

Ill tell her.

I want my baby.

We still house novitiates here, of course.

But we do get quite a few guests, also.

Mostly people passing through

on their way to new parishes.

- Is that what youre doing, Father Lucci?

- Yes, it is.

- Then you wont be staying very long?

- Father Morrell?

May I help you?

No, Father, this is Father Lucci.

Im sorry. I thought that...

But the resemblance is...

...remarkable.

I don't believe weve met.

No, it couldn't be. That was long ago.

Very long ago.

If youll excuse me.

But the resemblance...

...its remarkable!

Really?

Good night, Father.

Abby?

Why is this happening?

Gods grace is empty.

Theres nothing I can do.

The signs have begun.

As each passes, the end grows closer.

Then why are you here?

Im its deliverer. I'm its witness.

What if a sign didnt happen?

What if a sign could be stopped before

my baby comes? What would happen?

Please, tell me.

Then the chain would be broken.

But it would take something

you don't have.

Hope.

How can someone who cared

so little for life...

...give life to the world?

I do care.

Im going to try.

Im going to try.

Any chance at all, sir?

What can you do now that

the federal appeal has been denied?

With less than 24 hours to go,

is there anything you can you do to stop the execution?

"The windows of heaven," Mrs. Quinn...

"...the windows of heaven are open

and the earth is rent asunder.

"It falls...

"...and will not rise again!"

Please, Mrs. Quinn, it doesnt have to be.

How do you know my name?

I followed the signs. They led me to you.

Who are you?

A priest whos come to help you

and your baby. We don't have much time.

Please.

I know what youre going through.

I know what's going to happen.

Hey, Mrs. Quinn!

I must know everything hes told you

if I'm to help.

He said if I can stop a sign,

the chain will be broken.

That's what he told you?

Yes, and God would grant the world

a second chance.

Did he tell you which sign to stop?

No, that's what Im trying to figure out.

No, no. Thats impossible.

I don't think the sign can't be stopped.

He wouldn't have told me

if there weren't a way.

Thats why I have to know what the other signs are.

You said you knew them.

God has no secrets.

The signs are contained in The Bible are called the seven seals.

The first four have already begun.

The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse.

And their signs are almost over.

- The fifth seal is the death of the last martyr.

- A death could be stopped.

But whose? Where?

- What about the sixth?

- The sun will turn to darkness...

...and the earth will quake

and the stars shall fall from the sky.

"And when the Lamb opened

the seventh seal...

"...there was silence in heaven."

The silence of The Guf, empty.

The stillbirth of the soulless child.

You are the seventh seal.

Im not gonna let my baby die.

One of the signs has to be stopped.

How? Do you know how?

With hope.

Can hope stop an earthquake?

Can it stop a murder

halfway around the globe?

The fourth horseman still rides.

The angels have unleashed the winds

from the corners of the earth.

Can you stop that with hope?

Will you die for Him?

Will you die for Him?

No!

You hit him in my dream.

It was no dream.

You were there.

Youre not here to help.

You want the world to end.

Yes, Mrs. Quinn. For a very long time.

You are my deliverance.

Theres nothing you can do.

You can't stop it.

What kind of God are you?

Let me in!

You always were nosy, Harold.

It is you, Morrell.

But that was 70 years ago.

That was just yesterday to me.

But you havent aged.

You havent changed.

In the name of God, how?

In the name of God is how.

I was cursed by Him for what I had done.

I struck a man.

But, of course, He was no man.

He was the Son of God.

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