Texas-born documentarian George Ratliff's (HELL HOUSE) fiction debut is a disappointing pastiche of THE BAD SEED (1956) and THE GOOD SON (1993) that produces a painfully slow psychological thriller about upper-middle-class parenting anxiety.
Brad and Abby Cairn (Sam Rockwell, Vera Farmiga) appear to have the perfect life: a brilliant, artistic 9-year-old son, Joshua (Jacob Kogan); a rambling West Side apartment overlooking Central Park; financial security conferred by Brad's Wall Street success; loving if slightly overbearing in-laws (Celia Weston, Tom Bloom); and a cute mutt. True, prim, blank-faced little Joshua has no friends and seems closer to Abby's br...
Released:
2007
Rated:
R
Length:
105 mins