Joshua (2007)

Sam Rockwell and Vera Farmiga are a moneybags stockbroker and a funbagsy looker in Joshua (2007), the tale of a well-to-do couple whose son is a little cuckoo. Joshua (Jacob Kogan) is their firstborn bairn, a super-intelligent type who dresses, thinks, and acts like anything but a nine-year-old tyke. Something about him is very adult, from his fondness for formalwear to his taste in piano pieces—he likes to play dissonant ditties while the other kids are plunking out "Heart and Soul." When Vera brings home a new little sister for her spooky son, Jacob ends up alienated . . . and when Jacob is alienated, the whole family suffers. Soon the mood at the brood's abode goes from happy to creepy to downright disturbing, and weird things start happening right and left. As Vera nears a breakdown, Jacob starts acting like a future serial killer, and soon tragic fates befall more than just the family pets. Is it all a coincidence, or has the apple of Sam's and Vera's eyes become a seriously bad apple?