Birth (2004)

"Birth" is a drama about a 10-year-old boy (Cameron Bright) who insists, and believes to his core, that he is the reincarnation of Sean, the late husband of Anna (Nicole Kidman), who is about to married to businessman Joseph (Danny Houston). The kicker: Anna not only believes the boy, but soon falls in love with him.

This isn't for anyone who remotely likes children or laws protecting children from sexual exploitation. In a scene that had me squirming like never before, the boy, also named Sean, strips and gets into a bathtub with a naked Kidman. Elsewhere, Joseph attacks Sean in a rage, as does another character.

Never dull by a long shot, this film begs too many questions to succeed: Why do young Sean's parents simply vanish without a care, leaving their child with clearly distraught strangers for days on end? For that matter, where are Cameron Bright's parents? I can't give away a scene involving Joseph and Anna toward the film's ending, but I found it to be ludicrous. C