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Joshua (2006)

Name: Joshua
Director: Travis Betz
Genre: Dysfunctional family, Nightmare
Released: 2006
Duration: 95 min
Cast: Jim Betz, Jacob Casper, Jesse Casper, John Casper, John Coffman

2006 · Travis Betz · 95 min · United States of America

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Kelby Unger is a young man from a dysfunctional family that lives with his girlfriend Amelia Gates and has sleeping problems with dreadful nightmares. When he proposes Amelia, he coincidently receives a phone call from the warden of the prison of his hometown telling that his father had just died from heart attack. He decides to return to Bisbee for the funeral and Amelia goes with him. Kelby and Amelia lodge at his mother's house and he meets his slut sister Trish, his former friends James Lilly and the policeman Wally and his unknown uncle Tom. When Wally has a nervous breakdown with the name of Joshua, Kelby is haunted by the evil past in Bisbee.

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Joshua (2006)

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