Joshua (2007)


Sam Rockwell            Brad Cairn
Vera Farmiga            Abby Cairn
Celia Weston            Hazel Cairn
Dallas Roberts          Ned Davidoff
Michael McKean          Chester Jenkins
Jacob Kogan             Joshua Cairn
Ezra Barnes             Fred Solomon
Tom Bloom               Joe Cairn
Rufus Collins           Henry Abernathy
Alex Draper             Stewart Slocum
Nancy Giles             Betsy Polsheck
Daniel H. Jenkins       Minister
Linda Larkin            Ms. Danforth
Jodie Markell           Ruth Solomon
Haviland Morris         Monique Abernathy

Directed by:            George Ratliff
Produced by:            Temple Fennell, Dan O Meara, Johnathan Dorfman


The tale of Brad and Abby Cairn, perfect Manhattan parents in a perfect Manhattan apartment 
whose perfect life begins to crack after the birth of their second child Lily. Shortly after 
Lily arrives home, a dark side of prodigy son Joshua slowly begins to reveal itself.

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The Cairn's life seems to be a harmonic family: The father Brad works as a stockbroker, his 
wife Abby takes care of their common new-born daughter Lily, and the 9-year-old Joshua is 
high-talented. But the appearances are deceptive. Joshua becomes gradual jealously, that his 
parents give the baby more attention than him. Therefore he begins to terrorize his family.  

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In Manhattan, the successful stockbroker Brad Cairn and his beautiful wife Abby are celebrating 
their newborn daughter Lily in their new fancy apartment with Brad's mother Hazel and Abby's 
brother, the artist Ned Davidoff. Their extremely intelligent and talented nine year-old son 
Joshua is feeling neglected and jealous of Lily, trying to attract more attention from his 
parents and relatives. When the baby is nineteen days old, she starts to uninterruptedly crying, 
driving Abby to a nervous breakdown. Meanwhile the family's dog dies and Brad asks for vacation 
to stay with Lily and Joshua. When Joshua goes to the museum with his grandmother and Lily, Brad 
accidentally watches a videotape in his camera and finds Joshua forcing Lily to cry. Brad runs 
to the museum and he sees Joshua with Hazel in the top of the stairs and in the next moment Hazel 
dropping down the stairs and dying. Brad concludes that Joshua pushed Hazel and is hurting Lily 
but the evidences show another reality.