Orphan

Category: Drama
All Genres: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Release Year: 2009
Country: USA, Canada, Germany, France
Runtime: 123
Rating: (0)
Languages: English, American Sign Language, Estonian
Director: Jaume Collet-Serra
Sound: DTS, Dolby Digital, SDDS
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Writing by: David Johnson – (screenplay) (as David Leslie Johnson)
Alex Mace – (story)

Produced by: Aaron Auch – associate producer
David Barrett – co-producer
Don Carmody – executive producer
Leonardo DiCaprio – producer
Susan Downey – producer
Ethan Erwin – associate producer
Stacey Fields – associate producer
Christoph Fisser – co-producer
Michael Ireland – executive producer
Jennifer Davisson Killoran – producer
Sarah Meyer – associate producer
Richard Mirisch – co-producer
Henning Molfenter – co-producer
Erik Olsen – co-producer
Steve Richards – executive producer
Joel Silver – producer
Charlie Woebcken – co-producer (as Dr. Carl Woebcken)

Cast: Vera Farmiga – Kate Coleman
Peter Sarsgaard – John Coleman
Isabelle Fuhrman – Esther
CCH Pounder – Sister Abigail
Jimmy Bennett – Daniel Coleman
Margo Martindale – Dr. Browning
Karel Roden – Dr. Värava
Aryana Engineer – Max Coleman
Rosemary Dunsmore – Grandma Barbara
Jamie Young – Brenda
Lorry Ayers – Joyce

Music: John Ottman
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Plot Outline: A romantically challenged morning show producer (Heigl) is reluctantly embroiled in a series of outrageous…
Plot: A husband and wife who recently lost their baby adopt a 9-year-old girl who is not nearly as innocent as she claims to be.

Movie Quotes: Esther: I like it when it's just the two of us. You don't know how long I've waited for a daddy just like you.
John Coleman: Mommy too, right?
Esther: I don't think Mommy likes me very much.
John Coleman: Hey. That's not true, Mommy loves you.
Esther: It's all right. It must be hard to love an adopted child as much as your own.
John Coleman: Sweetheart, you're just as much part of this family as Danny and Max, okay? Why don't you do something nice for Mommy, show her how much you love her?
Esther: That's a wonderful idea.


Goofs: We know about 1 goofs. Here comes one of them:
Factual errors: When Kate is calling John after she finds out who Esther really is the power goes out and the cordless phone at their house also dies. Cordless phones are still able to be used in a power outage as long as they are charged and phone lines are still working.

Trivia: There are 10 entries in the trivia list – like these:

• Warner Bros. edited the film's trailer to remove Esther's line “It must be hard to love an adopted child as much as your own” after receiving numerous complaints from adoptive parents and foster care organizations.
• Shipped to theaters under the code name “Infant Terror”.
• The orphanage researched on the Internet is actually a photo of Alma College located in St. Thomas, Ont. Canada. The building was destroyed by fire in May of 2008.

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