Orphan is a 2009 psychological thriller and horror film directed by Jaume Collet-Serra, starring Isabelle Fuhrman, Aryana Engineer, Jimmy Bennett, Vera Farmiga and Peter Sarsgaard. The film centers on a couple who, after the death of their unborn child, adopt a mysterious nine-year old girl. Orphan was produced by Joel Silver and Susan Downey of Dark Castle Entertainment and Leonardo DiCaprio and Jennifer Davisson Killoran of Appian Way Productions. The film was released theatrically in the United States on July 24, 2009. The film received mixed critical reviews although Fuhrman's performance as Esther was acclaimed.
Kate Coleman (Vera Farmiga) and her husband John (Peter Sarsgaard) are experiencing strains in their marriage after their third child was stillborn. The loss is particularly hard on Kate, who is also recovering from alcoholism. The couple decides to adopt a nine-year-old Russian girl, Esther (Isabelle Fuhrman), from the local orphanage. While Kate and John's deaf daughter Max (Aryana Engineer) embraces Esther almost immediately, their son Daniel (Jimmy Bennett) is less welcoming.
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Michael Daye makes a promise to his dying friend to look out for his wife (Emily) and daughter (Amy) who are white. As fate would have it, Emily becomes incapacitated and Michael finds himself responsible for Amy's care. When Amy's relatives object because he's Black and his fiancée gives him an ultimatum. Will he honor his promise or cave to the pressures around him?
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Sometimes the hardest part about doing what's right....is knowing what right is
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Guy Maddin reluctantly returns to his childhood home, an abandoned Canadian island, where his parents ran an orphanage. As Guy fulfills his dying mother's request to paint the lighthouse which served as the orphanage, memories of strange events there overpower him. An undercover investigation by child author/detective Wendy & a revolt by the repressed children, blew open a cover-up by Guy's parents. Wendy disguised herself as her brother Chance and discovered that Maddin's inventor father performed outré scientific experiments on the orphans.
Keywords: advanced-technology, avant-garde, birthmark, black-and-white-and-color, campy, child-abuse, childhood-memory, children's-book-comes-to-life, cross-dressing, delusion
Narrator: What's a suicide attempt without a wedding?
Narrator: All things will happen again. And again.
Mother: Will you not shed a tear on my tomb?
Mother: God has poisoned my existence!
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Carnelle isn't happy with her life, so in order to improve herself she enters a local beauty contest, trying to emulate her cousin Elain's win many years ago. Few think she can win, even her closest friends and relatives (e.g. slightly mad cousin Delmount) think she's heading for a big disappointment, but Carnelle is ever hopeful, seeing a win as a ticket to escape her small town in Mississippi.
Keywords: affection, american-south, americana, based-on-play, beauty-contest, beauty-pageant, black-sheep, brother-sister-relationship, contest, cousin-cousin-relationship
An explosive comedy!
Delmount Williams: Please, don't make me treat you like dogs. I don't want to treat you like common dogs.
Carnelle Scott: Well, you know, they say we all gonna be dyin' some day. I believe it, too.
Mac Sam: I like a woman who can take it on the chin.
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Handsome playboy Nicky Ferrante and beautiful night club singer Terry McKay have a romance while on a cruise from Europe to New York. Despite being engaged to other people, both agree to reunite at the top of the Empire State Building in six months. However, an unfortunate accident keeps Terry from the reunion, and Nicky fears that she has married or does not love him anymore. Will he discover the truth behind her absence and reunite with his one true love, or has fate and destiny passed them by?
Keywords: accident-victim, airplane, artist, ballet, bare-chested-male, big-ben-london, billboard, camera, car-accident, champagne
On the Riviera...across the ocean...and all over New York!
A motion picture all your friends will tell you to see ... and you'll tell all your friends to see!
Every precious moment of the glad...tender...triumphant love they found -- and almost lost!
In Italy... on the Mediterranean... across an ocean... and all over New York!
Terry McKay: Winter must be cold for those with no warm memories... we've already missed the spring!
Nickie Ferrante: I'll just take my ego for a walk.
Nickie Ferrante: Tell me. Did you write the song "I'll Never Smile Again"?::Terry McKay: [laughs] No. But I'm thinking of writing one called "Moon Over La Gabriella." Do you think it will ever take the place of night baseball? [Shakes her head].
Nickie Ferrante: But you have such an honest face.::Terry McKay: I have?::Nickie Ferrante: I can trust you can't I?::Terry McKay: Yes, I suppose so.::Nickie Ferrante: Good, come with me.::Terry McKay: Yes, but the Captain has an honest face too! Why can't you tell him your troubles?
Interviewer: I'm sure you had some wonderful experiences in Europe.::Nickie Ferrante: Yes.::Interviewer: Would you care to expand on that statement?::Nickie Ferrante: No.
Terry McKay: And all I could say was, "hello".
Terry McKay: Oh, it's nobody's fault but my own! I was looking up... it was the nearest thing to heaven! You were there...
Nickie: There must be something between us, even if it's only an ocean.
Terry McKay: [voice shaking, ready to cry] If you can paint I can walk- anything can happen, right?
Terry McKay: The Empire State Building is the closest thing to heaven in this city.
First ring I ever drew still hurts the last thing I ever
drew
Telling myself just one more year until the last shovel
of dirt
Spending forever doting on each circle of graphite
Each fresh ring a hoop that marks my not passing on
Safe places are vaccuums, filling with sadness, without
spark
Plucked out of a patch of sun, I tried to refill you
Wrapped in burlap
My first born dead
How many children do I have to bury before I am allowed
to end
Why doesn't the ghost speak, instead stare accusing
Oh, I beg
I plead
Take this heart and let it bleed
Not for what I want
But what I need
Show me how to live
And teach me how to breathe
Tell me why do I
Hold on tonight
If I'm living a lie
Should I hide?
Or should I let a light shine
Shine out, (come on)
From the inside
Get a hold of yourself
You're living like an orphan
Is there no one else
For you to hold on to tonight
And I don't know why you looked to me
For these answers
'Cause I have none
Take this pride
Before it eats away everything I hold inside
Oh, I've tried
Just to fight the fear away
But I'm still so terrified
Tell me why do I
Hold on tonight
If I'm living a lie
Should I hide?
Or should I let a light shine
Shine out, (come on)
From the inside
Get a hold of yourself
You're living like an orphan
Is there no one else
For you to hold on to tonight
And I don't know why you looked to me
For these answers
'Cause I have none
So, get a hold of yourself
Oh, you're living like an orphan
Is there no one else
For you to hold on to tonight
And I don't know why you looked to me
For these answers
I killed myself today
I wish I could explain
I tried to find another way to tell you how I feel it
I tried to find another way to make you proud of me
I'm numb from kneeling
This cut's too deep for healing
Revealing, there's something amiss
Something you missed
Transfer the shame
You will never be the same
I will not accept the blame
'Cause I am what you made me
It's over now
What I've seen makes me
(You gave me life but this life is mine)
Pray for things I know
(You gave me life but this life is mine)
To change me, make me a whole
(You gave me life but this life is mine)
My life's so full of shit
(You gave me life but this life is mine)
In death is where I fit
I killed myself today
I wish I could remain
I tried to find another way to let myself go free
There seems to be no other way to make things right in me
I can't awaken, my life has been forsaken
I've taken the easy way out, the only way out
Empty my wrist, we could never co-exist
I will not let this persist 'cause I am what you made me
It's over now
What I've seen makes me
(You gave me life but this life is mine)
Pray for things I know
(You gave me life but this life is mine)
To change me, make me a whole
(You gave me life but this life is mine)
My life's so full of shit
(You gave me life but this life is mine)
Death is where I fit
You gotta see, you gotta try
Who's gonna change the world when I die
I said, you gotta see, you gotta try
Who's gonna change the world when I die
I said, you gotta see, you gotta try
Who's gonna change the world when I die
I said, you gotta see, you gotta try
Who's gonna change the world when I go
[Incomprehensible]
[Incomprehensible]
[Incomprehensible] make me whole
Well now you lost your son and lost control
Tell me now, how you feel
You can fucking live your life
But you can't live mine
Pray for things I know
To change me, make me a whole
My life's so full of shit
Death is where I fit
You can fucking live your life but not mine
You can fucking live your life but not mine
You can fucking live your life but not mine
You can fucking live your life but not mine
Tell me stories of your recent past.
And we'll try to make sense of it all.
I know you want to put it all behind you,
But it seems that it is not so simple,
And we don't have the time, to sit and figure out where we can go from
here.
We can bring out the witnesses,
Rely on progress designed by intellect.
We'll love like we're brothers, draw breath like we're drowning.
The strength to make it through is in you.
We'll love like we're brothers, draw breath like we're drowning.
The strength to make it through is in you.
There're only two positions,
The wicked and the victim.
But that's what you get for buying into such a crooked system.
The only faith I hold,
That a new consciousness will be born.
And we will be held accountable for all we've done.
We'll look back and wonder how we ever let it be this way.
Unless we begin at the start, then we can do nothing.
We'll live like we're alive,
With the love we hold in our hearts.
Unless we begin at the start, then we can do nothing.
With my eyes tight shut, in a time like then,
I wonder if we'd ever feel this way again.
Because I know that i'd feel the same.
What are we waiting for today?
What will we ever take away?
I don't know why I lie awake,
What are we waiting for today?
What are we waiting for today?
Unless we begin at the start, then we can do nothing.
We'll live like we're alive,
With the love we hold in our hearts.
Unless we begin at the start, then we can do nothing.