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A psychological thriller in which a successful young Manhattan family is torn apart when they discover 9-year-old Joshua has the power to make things come tumbling down.

With his affluent yuppie parents, brilliant and beatific Joshua Jacob Kogan) leads a loving and enriched life among the upper denizens of Manhattan. In his preppie sports coat, he’s a poster-boy child, precocious and way ahead of his gifted classmates. His family is loving, and he’s even got a brand-new baby sister, who, admittedly, grabs attention because she incessantly cries.

It’s a charmed household, enlivened by doting grandparents and a charismatic and musically talented uncle. Yet, like any normal family, there are fissures of discontent: The grandparents’ evangelical-Christian proselytizing annoys his free-thinking parents, in particular his Jewish mother, who is further frazzled by her daughter’s nonstop bawling. On the paternal side, Dad is under big-time pressure at his brokerage firm.

In the best Hitchcockean sense, we now see the affluent prosperity and the benign richness of the family’s life through more skeptical and sinister eyes. Things seem to be going awry, way beyond the bounds of normal family dynamics.

Notes : Often compared to The Sixth Sense, Joshua won an award at the 2007 Sundance Film Festival. A frightening thriller.. predicted to be one of the best this year.

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