Joshua (film)

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Joshua
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Directed by	George Ratliff
Produced by	Johnathan Dorfman
Written by	George Ratliff David Gilbert
Starring	Sam Rockwell Vera Farmiga Celia Weston Dallas Roberts Michael McKean Jacob Kogan
Music by	Nico Muhly
Cinematography	Benoît Debie
Editing by	Jacob Craycroft
Release date(s)	July 6, 2007
Country	United States
Language	English
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Joshua is a 2007 psychological horror/thriller film about an affluent young Manhattan family, and how they are torn apart by the increasingly psychotic behavior of the mentally disturbed son Joshua. The film was directed by George Ratliff and stars Sam Rockwell, Vera Farmiga, and Jacob Kogan. It was released on July 6, 2007 in the United States.

[edit] Plot

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The movie centers around the lives of Brad Cairn 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" classical pieces - Joshua gravitates toward his gay aesthete uncle (Dallas Roberts) as a close friend, but distances himself from his immediate kin - particularly when Abby brings a newborn baby sister home from the hospital and unwisely alienates the young boy. As the days pass, one at a time, the mood at the house regresses from healthy and happy to strange, unsettled and disorienting; meanwhile, bizarre events transpire. As the baby's whines drive an already strained Abby to the point of a nervous breakdown, Joshua devolves from eccentric to downright sociopathic behavior, discarding all of his toys, disemboweling a stuffed animal, and killing off pets. Eventually, family members also begin to suffer tragic fates - but the question of whether or not they are Joshua's fevered and psychotic doings or merely the result of happenstance is not answered until the shocking conclusion.

[edit] Music

The song featured at the end of the film and during the end credits entitled, "The Fly," was written especially for the movie by singer Dave Matthews. Matthews wrote the song as the production company of which he is a partner, 'ATO Pictures', was the production company behind the film.

Beethoven's Piano Sonata No. 12 was used widely in the film, and was learned and played by 12-year old Jacob Kogan. No soundtrack has been made available for this film.