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Joshua (2007) |  | Director: George Ratliff
Actors: Sam Rockwell, Vera Farmiga, Celia Weston, Michael McKean, Dallas Roberts
Studio: 20th Century Fox
Category: DVD
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Rating:  41 reviews
Sales Rank: 16548
Format: AC-3, Color, Dolby, DTS Surround Sound, Widescreen, NTSC
Languages: English (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled), English (Original Language), Spanish (Dubbed)
Rating: R (Restricted)
Region: 1
Discs: 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Running Time: 106 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.3 x 0.6
MPN: FOXD2249209D
UPC: 024543492092
EAN: 0024543492092
ASIN: B000Y7U982
Theatrical Release Date: 2007
Release Date: January 8, 2008
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Director George Ratliff, who also made Hell House, a fascinating documentary about Christian haunted houses constructed to scare kids straight, offers his version of the possessed child horror movie with Joshua. In the establishing scenes, nine year-old piano prodigy, Joshua (Jacob Kogan), is a vision of perfection, even as his new baby sister, Lily, takes up their parents' time a little too often. As time unfolds, indicated cinematically by text describing the baby's days alive on screen, Joshua's jealousy serves as the springboard for his mental and physical manifestations of violence and detached emotion. Somewhere mid-film, parents Brad and Abby Cairn (Sam Rockwell and Vera Farmiga) begin to piece together Joshua's disturbing behavior, but as they seek him help Joshua finds ways to sabotage their plans. Like many of the great films about evil-doing children, such as The Omen, The Exorcist, and The Bad Seed, the star's ability to play a maladjusted youth is all, and Jacob Kogan does a wonderful job. Additionally, Rockwell and Farmiga excel at portraying parents fraught with fear and exhaustion. Joshua is not a gory movie as is some of its predecessors, but there is enough psychological tension to make this drama worthy of honor amongst other films in its genre. —Trinie Dalton
Product Description
Studio: Tcfhe Release Date: 09/09/2008 Run time: 106 minutes Rating: R
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Some strong moments June 25, 2010
Viva (So. Cal.)
The kid playing the creepy, too-smart, malevolent Joshua is great. So is the production design and so are some of the plot elements.
Joshua is a gifted kid living with his parents and new baby sister in NY. After the sister arrives, the mother gets PPD that soon becomes PPP. She does figure out, though, that Joshua is playing games with her to push her over the edge. By that time, though, she is so nutty that it's hard for others to believe her. The father is mostly obsessed with work and torn between that and his troubled wife and other problems on the homefront. We are made to think for a while that J is jealous of the new baby, but by the end it seems clear that he has other motives for what he does. He is a great manipulator of his father in particular.
I won't spoil the rest of it.
The film does tend to drag on a bit, and it seems implausible that any father would leave a disturbed woman at home with a baby and no help, which they could have afforded to get.
 A tension-building character study, that works. April 8, 2010
Brok Spiker (Somewhere, IL USA)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Most people need to understand first; this is NOT a gore film. Some are comparing this to "Orphan," which I can see the similarities, but this is a realistic portrayal of a sociopathic child. Although it's not as messed up as "The Shining," "Frailty," or "Misery," I still find this film amongst those greats. It's been done before of course w/ "The Bad Seed," "The Good Son" etc, but this one in my opinion, did it right. If you like your films to make an impact on your after thoughts, at least rent this movie. It's really something special.
has some similarities to Orphan,but i found it lacked the same intensity (3.5/5) March 15, 2010
falcon (canada)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
i had never even heard of this film until after i had seen Orphan.some of the reviews for that film and the message board had recommended this film.some had suggested it was a superior film.so i decided to give it a shot.i'm not sure i would call it a superior film.it has some similarities to Orphan for sure.however,i found it much more deliberately paced than Orphan was.Vera Farmiga(who played the Mother in Orphan)plays the Mother here and is a revelation.and Sam Rockwell is very good as the father slowly unravelling at the seams.Joshua(Jacob Kogan)is certainly an evil seed,there's no doubt about that.but i just didn't quite feel the same intensity as i did with Orphan.don't get me wrong.this is still a good movie.for me,Joshua is a 3.5/5
it is an okay movie to watch ! December 23, 2009
Rigo (TN)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
this movie is not really great but it is entertaining i watched it last night w/my wife and we both think this movie is okay there are some blank empty spaces that will make you wondering what happened ... and hmmmm what is up ....why the father did not report the way joshua was acting and was behaving and of course there was a proof when joshua scare his little sister that it was recorded on camera .. this is a small example and there was a few more screw ups on this movie but is a decent movie to watch .
 They dont make good horror movies anymore... October 27, 2009
Chuck Mengel (Tyrone, Pa.)
2 out of 4 found this review helpful
This was the absolute most boring movie I have ever seen. Im not kidding when I say nothing entertaining happend in this movie. TERRIBLE!!
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