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Joshua
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R,1hr 45min
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July 6, 2007
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Fox Searchlight
Synopsis: 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 child - to such a degree that he thinks and acts decades ahead of his age. Nearly always clad in formal wear and demonstrating limitless brilliance as a pianist - with a marked predilection for "dissonant" ... Full Synopsis
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"... at once familiar and yet startlingly inventive and thrilling. ... a tantalizing, tense thriller in the most genteel of settings, which adds to the suspense." Full Review
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 ... Full Review
Featured Cast
Brad Cairn
Abby Cairn, Abby Carin
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Jacob Kogan as Joshua Cairn in "Joshua" (Fox Searchlight)
Sam Rockwell, left, as Brad Cairn and Vera Farmiga Abby Cairn in "Joshua" (Fox Searchlight)
Vera Farmiga as Abby Cairn and Jacob Kogan (foreground) as Joshua Cairn in "Joshua" (Fox...
Director George Ratliff, left, with Jacob Kogan on the set of "Joshua" (Fox Searchlight)
Jacob Kogan, right, as Joshua Cairn in "Joshua" (Fox Searchlight)
Jacob Kogan as Joshua Cairn in "Joshua" (Fox Searchlight)
Vera Farmiga, left, as Abby Cairn and Sam Rockwell as Brad Cairn in "Joshua" (Fox Searchlight)
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