Joshua

Sam Rockwell and Vera Farmiga star in director George Ratliff's uncomfortable psychological thriller Joshua, as Brad and Abby Cairn, an affluent young stockbroker and his wife, raising children in New York City. Their firstborn, the nine-year-old Joshua (Jacob Kogan) is a frighteningly intelligent ...more

The psycho kid flick -- from The Bad Seed to The Good Son -- tends to wallow in precocious camp and cheap devil child thrills. George Ratliff's Joshua attempts to revitalize the genre by injecting an element of realism. When his mom Abby (Vera Farmiga) and dad Brad (Sam Rockwell) give birth to a baby girl, Joshua (Jacob Kogan) starts to worry that not only will he have to share attention with his sister, but that his flowering sociopath tendencies will alienate him from his parents. A ...more