Orphan (2009) on Netflix
R20092h 3mHorrorMysteryThriller
After the stillbirth of their child, Kate and John Coleman adopt nine-year-old Esther from an orphanage. Their son Daniel resents her, and Kate grows uneasy while John dismisses her worries.
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Plot summary
Kate and John Coleman are rebuilding their troubled marriage. Kate had a drinking problem, but is in therapy and is doing well. She has been sober for one year. The couple decide to adopt a child. When they meet the nine-year-old Russian girl, Esther, at the St. Marina Orphanage, they immediately fall in love with the well-educated orphan. Their young son, Daniel, is hostile to his new sister; but their deaf daughter, little Max, is enchanted with her - at first. Eventually, Kate begins to feel that Esther is manipulative and possibly even psychologically disturbed. John refuses to listen to his wife's misgivings, and the wounds in their marriage reopen. Kate calls Sister Abigail at the orphanage, and the nun informs her that Esther has a troubled and mysterious history. Kate delves further into Esther's past and discovers she is not all she pretends to be.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Orphan (2009)
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The film's child villain Esther was inspired by real 2007 news coverage of a 34-year-old woman who posed as an orphaned child, infiltrated a family and manipulated them into starving two boys, then evaded police by later posing as a missing 13-year-old boy in Norway.- The controversy caused the filmmakers to change a line in one of their trailers from "It must be difficult to love an adopted child as much as your own" to "I don't think Mommy likes me very much".
