A Couple Adopts a Little Girl Who is Not as Innocent as She Appears

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00:00Welcome back to Movie Recaps. Today I will show you a horror, mystery film from 2009,

00:05titled Orphan. Spoilers ahead, watch out and take care. Kate and her husband John walk into

00:11a hospital because she's in labor. She gets wheeled away, as John stays behind to sign her in.

00:17Immediately, Kate starts bleeding. She wakes up in an operating room, surrounded by medical staff,

00:23but her husband isn't there yet. The whole situation feels strange and frightening to her,

00:27when the nurse tells her that her baby is dead. Kate can't believe it. John comes in and starts

00:32filming the birth, as if nothing was wrong. The nurse hands her the infant. Kate is screaming

00:37and suddenly, she wakes up in her bed. She gets up and goes to the restroom, looking at the scar on

00:43her belly. She takes a tablet. The next day, Kate is at psychotherapy, where Dr. Browning explains

00:49that nightmares as those are a normal response to the trauma of stillbirth. Kate wonders if the

00:54nightmare was about that or about the fact that she will adopt a child soon. She thinks she might

00:59not be ready. Kate tells her therapist that she was considering buying some alcohol, to which

01:03Browning replies that the important thing is that she didn't buy any at the end. Relating to the

01:08adoption, the therapist tells her that ultimately she has to decide if she will go through with it.

01:13Kate goes to pick up her deaf daughter Max from school. She's driving her home, but when she moves

01:18from a stoplight distracted, she almost causes an accident. Later, Kate is seen playing the piano

01:24and composing music. She gets irritated by some noise she hears, so she goes outside and sees that

01:30Max is throwing a basketball on the wall. She yells at her to stop and the kid apologizes. John arrives

01:35home with their son Daniel and the three of them goof around with the basketball. That night, Kate is

01:41putting Max to bed, when she asks her to read her a story. The story is about the child that died.

01:46Max asks her if she'll get a new sister. Before Kate goes to bed, she takes another tablet. She

01:52gets into bed with John and they talk about the adoption. She made her decision, they will go

01:56through with it. Sometime later, they are seen diving into an orphanage. Sister Abigail meets

02:02them up front and tells them to look around. Kate stays on the first floor, looking at the little

02:07girls playing and John goes to the second floor. He hears a girl sing and walks inside the room,

02:12where Esther is painting. She tells him an amazing story about the painting she's making,

02:17as Kate and Abigail walk into the room. John introduces them and the three of them continue

02:22to talk. The girl says that nobody has ever talked to her before because she's different.

02:26They seem to like her. They talk to Abigail about adopting Esther. She tells them that she was

02:31originally from Russia and that the people who brought her to the US died in a house fire.

02:36But, all in all Abigail thinks that the girl is wonderful. Kate agrees. Three weeks later,

02:41they pick her up from the orphanage and say goodbye to Abigail. In the car, Kate teaches

02:46Esther sign language. They reach the house and Max is excited to see them. Esther introduces herself

02:52to her instantly, asking Kate how much she can hear. She tells her that she can hear just enough

02:57so that she can read people's lips. Once inside, they're met with Grandma Barbara and Daniel.

03:02That night all of them give her welcome gifts, except Daniel, who already seems jealous of the girl,

03:07especially when she gives John a huge thank you hug. Daniel goes outside to the treehouse with

03:12his friends and they look through dirty magazines. Esther and Max play in the snow, as Barbara and

03:17Kate talk about Max and about her plans to start teaching again once Esther is settled. Barbara seems

03:22to feel disappointed in Kate. There's a storm brewing that night, as Kate gets ready to go to bed.

03:28Esther wakes up and goes to Max's room. John and Kate are making love, when there's knock on the door

03:33and it's the two girls asking to sleep in their bed. Esther wants to sleep next to John.

03:38The next morning, they're all ready to leave the house and get to school, when Esther comes down

03:42the stairs in a fancy dress, prompting the other children to laugh. Kate wants to make sure if Esther

03:47really wants to wear that to school and the girl tells her that there is nothing wrong in being

03:51different. Kate lets her wear the dress. Later, she is being welcomed in class by her teacher,

03:57when one of the kids makes fun of her. That day, Max and Esther play on the frozen lake,

04:01when Kate runs out, yelling that doing that isn't allowed. Simultaneously, Daniel plays with a

04:07paintball gun and shoots a bird. Esther and Max walk over and he's very upset, but Esther gives him

04:12a large rock, telling him to put it out of its misery. He doesn't want to do it, so she does it

04:17for him. Later, Esther goes to take a bath. Kate goes into her room to put away her laundry, but finds an

04:23old Bible stuck in a drawer. She doesn't hear Esther looking out of the bathroom as she looks through it

04:28and finds a photo of a man inside. At school, Daniel's friends are making fun of him because

04:33of Esther, so he pushes her books over. When she goes to pick them up, a girl from her class finds

04:38her Bible and as they struggle for it, it falls on the ground. Esther picks it up, but the girl reaches

04:43for her choker, calling her a doggie. Esther screams. Later, Kate is teaching her how to play the piano.

04:50Then she asks her about the incident at the school, but she doesn't want to talk about it.

04:54Kate gives her a scrapbook, which she has already started for her. When Esther asks her about the

04:59baby she lost, Kate tells her what happened, as she shows her the roses where they scattered

05:03her ashes. After dinner, thinking the kids are sleeping, Kate and John make love in the kitchen.

05:09Esther suddenly appears. The next morning, Kate goes to talk to her about it. Esther seems unfazed

05:15as she paints, saying she knows about it and uses the F word. Kate and John talk about it later and

05:20she thinks they should take her to a therapist. John thinks it's overreacting to take the child

05:24to therapy for one dirty word. John takes the girls to a park and while they're at a swing,

05:29one of his neighbors comes over to flirt with him. Meanwhile, Esther's bully comes into the

05:34playground as well. Esther's attention is divided between her and John's exchange with the neighbor.

05:39The bully is actually afraid of Esther and looks out for her as she goes to play in the castle.

05:43She wants to go down a slide when Esther pushes her suddenly, breaking her leg. Max sees her do it.

05:49At diner that night, John talks to Esther about it, Max confirms the story that the girl slept.

05:55Before they eat, Esther prays and Max does the same. She even understands sign language better

06:00than Daniel. He antagonizes her and starts calling her names, when the parents interject.

06:05He runs off, angry and cursing. John puts a lock on his treehouse as a punishment. Later,

06:11Kate is at the store with the girls, when Sister Abigail calls her. Esther refuses to talk to her,

06:16but Kate continues. She steps aside and tells Sister Abigail about everything that has been

06:21happening, while Max reads her lips and recounts her words to Esther. That night, Esther plays the

06:26piano perfectly to Kate's surprise. She asks why Esther pretended not to know how to play and the

06:31girl replies that she did it for her benefit. That night, Kate and John argue about Esther and their

06:36argument spirals out of control. Esther hears them in the other room, contented. One day, Sister Abigail

06:43comes over to the house. She talks to the parents about Esther, thinking that there might be something

06:48wrong with her. She lists a few things that she might have done in the past, like hurting other

06:52children. The girl hears everything and goes to get Max, telling her that she needs to help her so

06:57the mean lady doesn't take her away. Kate thinks that Abigail might be onto something, but John thinks

07:02she's overreacting. Kate suggests they take her to a therapist and he agrees. Meanwhile, Esther tells

07:08Max to find the keys to the treehouse, but instead she uses them to get a gun out of John's safe.

07:13She takes the bullets out of the revolver, leaving one inside. She points it at Max, scaring her

07:19terribly. As Abigail leaves the house in her car, Esther takes Max to a bridge telling her that they

07:24will scare her so much, she'll never want to come back. As the car approaches, she pushes Max onto the

07:29street and Abigail almost hits the girl, swirls and crashes the car. Abigail finds Max crying,

07:35when Esther hits her with a hammer. She instructs Max to help her get Abigail off the road.

07:40They roll her down, but she's still alive, so Esther finishes her off with the hammer.

07:45The two of them go into the treehouse, where Esther hides her bloody clothes and the hammer.

07:49She tells Max that they'll send her to jail too just for helping her. Esther then tells her that she

07:54loves her. Daniel sees them climb down the treehouse, but Esther sees him too. That night, she comes into

08:00his room with a scalpel, threatening him not to say anything. The boy pees himself.

08:05John and Kate take Esther to see Browning, who talks to them about her as she waits outside.

08:10The therapist says that there is nothing wrong with the girl, but that Kate is in fact the problem.

08:15She thinks Kate feels inadequate as a mother and is taking it out on Esther.

08:19John agrees with her reasoning. When they come back home, Kate gets a call from the orphanage and

08:24she's told that Sister Abigail hasn't returned since the previous day. The police search for her and find

08:29her body where Esther left it. A police officer is seen talking to Kate and John, saying they have

08:34no suspects. Esther is in her room switching the light of her aquarium on and off, showing a gruesome

08:39painting she has made of the house and the family. Kate searches online for information about disturbed

08:44children and shows her findings to John. He disagrees with her again and she tells him she won't be

08:50seeing Dr. Browning anymore. Kate is worried about who Esther is and says she'll contact the orphanage

08:55in Russia, where Esther came from. When she makes the call, she finds out that there are no records

09:00of her previous to her arrival in the US. The next day, John goes to wake Esther up to take her to the

09:05dentist, but since she doesn't want to go he promises to reschedule. They spend the day painting

09:10together and Esther tells him, that she thinks that Kate doesn't like her. Meanwhile, Kate is taking the

09:15other children to school and asks them about her. They lie, saying she's never done anything wrong.

09:21That night, Esther comes in the kitchen telling Kate she has a present for her. She gives her a

09:25bucket of roses, picked from the place where Kate's daughter's ashes were scattered. Kate gets upset

09:30and grabs her, but John tells her it was his fault. That same night, Esther goes to the garage and breaks

09:36her hand. Back in bed, she calls for John, telling him her arm hurts and when he checks it, he sees it's

09:41been broken. They come back from the doctor and he's tucking her in their bed, when Kate comes in. He

09:47confronts her, but Kate says she didn't grab her that hard. Later, she goes to a liquor store and

09:52buys two wine bottles. She gets a little drunk, but throws the rest of the open wine bottle down

09:57the drain. Kate drives the kids to school the following morning. Daniel walks out of the car

10:02and his bag rips, so when Kate goes to help him, Esther puts the car in drive with Max still in

10:07there. Kate runs after the car, until it's finally stopped by the snow. That night, Dr. Browning is in

10:13their house and Kate swears that she put the car in park and that Max is covering for Esther. John

10:18shows her the second wine bottle which Esther found. The therapist tells her that she reserved a

10:23spot for her in a rehabilitation center, but Kate tells them her side of the story about the wine.

10:28They don't believe her about the wine and about the accident. John thinks she's being manipulative

10:33and gives her a week to go to rehab or he'll leave and take the kids. Meanwhile, Esther tells Max that

10:38she'll shoot her mom if she tells on her. Later, Daniel goes into Max's room and she tells him

10:43about Abigail and the treehouse. He says he'll get the stuff from the treehouse, but Esther hears him.

10:48Kate gets up during the night and sneaks into Max's room. Suddenly, Esther turns the light on. They go

10:54back and forth, but Esther shows her the diary she'd been keeping, letting her know she'd read it. She

11:00antagonizes her, but Kate doesn't fall for it. The next day, Kate calls the orphanage again and when she

11:06doesn't find out anything, she goes to get Esther's Bible. She finds it hidden in a plush toy and finds

11:11pictures of men inside. She sees the word Sarn Institute on it and immediately searches for what they

11:16mean online. She calls the number she finds and they tell her that the institute is actually mental

11:21hospital and not an orphanage. Meanwhile, Daniel sneaks out of the house to get the stuff from the

11:26treehouse. Esther follows him there and starts pouring fuel over the evidence, then lights it and

11:31continues pouring fuel over Daniel. She locks him inside the burning treehouse. He calls for his

11:36mother, but she's too busy investigating Esther. Daniel gets on the roof, crying for help. He falls

11:42onto a wooden beam, but slips and falls on the ground, as Esther watches him. Suddenly, Kate sees

11:48the fire, as Esther goes over Daniel to kill him with a rock. Max pushes her away and Kate arrives before

11:54she can do anything more. Daniel is alive. They're all in the hospital, when the doctor comes in and

12:00informs them that he has a serious neck injury and might not remember what happened. Esther is worried

12:05about that. Kate tells John what she found out about Esther, but he's still not convinced. While

12:10they are arguing, Esther goes to Daniel's room. Max knows what's going on and goes after her.

12:16Esther starts suffocating Daniel with his pillow, as Max goes to get her parents. The alarm in Daniel's

12:21room goes off and the doctors revive him. Kate confronts Esther and slaps her. Orderlies grab her and sedate

12:27her. She misses an important phone call. Later, Kate wakes up and immediately asks about Daniel.

12:33She begs John not to let Esther near Max, as she stays overnight in the hospital. That night,

12:38Max takes of her hearing aid and her dad tucks her in. Esther comes in and grabs the aid when she says

12:43goodnight to her. John goes down to the living room and gets drunk. Esther walks downstairs, dressed up

12:49like an adult and sits next to John, who doesn't understand what's happening. Esther starts kissing him,

12:54but he recoils. He explains that he doesn't love her the way him and Kate love each other.

13:00John tells her to go to her room, but she tells him not to talk to her like she's a child. He says

13:05he will be calling the orphanage tomorrow about her. Esther goes to her room and cries. Meanwhile,

13:10Kate gets a call from a doctor in the Sarn Institute. He recognizes Esther and tells her to get her family

13:15out of the house, then to call the police. He tells her that Esther isn't a little girl, but that she

13:20has some kind of hormone disorder that only makes her look like a child. She is in fact an adult woman.

13:26Esther was one of the most violent patients in the hospital and when she fought her restraints,

13:30they left scars on her hands and neck. The doctor tells Kate that she has killed at least seven people.

13:36Kate is rushing to get home, confused how she could fool them. Back at the house, Esther trashes her room

13:41and removes all of her makeup used to hide the fact that she's not a little girl. John goes to check on

13:46her and finds her paintings all over the wall. Kate is calling him as she's driving home, but the power

13:51goes out in the house before he can pick up. She calls the police. John finds a light and looks

13:57through the house, when Esther stabs him. He's incapacitated, but alive, so she keeps on stabbing

14:02him until she kills him. Max sees her and she goes after her next. Kate drives so fast toward the house

14:08that she crashes into it and immediately goes upstairs. She finds John, then she realizes Max is in trouble

14:14and tries to find her. She looks in her room, but when she doesn't find her goes into the bathroom.

14:20Suddenly, Esther shoots her. Kate hides in her bedroom, but fortunately Esther doesn't find her there,

14:25because she's hitting outside of the window. Max hides in the garden and Esther is coming for her there,

14:30as Kate sees her from the glass roof. Esther shoots after her again, then finds Max and shoots after her too.

14:37Max escapes as Kate breaks the glass roof, falling on top of Esther. A moment later, Max wakes Kate up.

14:43She takes the gun and picks her up, leaving Esther behind. She walks out into the forest. The police

14:49arrives and enters the house, but Esther isn't there. Suddenly she's running after Kate and Max with a

14:54knife. The two of them fall on the frozen lake and they struggle, with Esther relentlessly going after

14:59Kate. Max picks up the gun and shoots, breaking the ice. Both of them fall inside and struggle, until

15:05Kate incapacitates Esther. As she's crawling out, Esther grabs her again, begging her not to let her die,

15:11but Kate kicks her back in the lake.

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