Há alguma coisa errada com Esther!
“A tragédia parece acompanhar a vida de ESHER apesar dos seus 9 anos de idade. Ela é uma órfã russa e a família que a adotou morreu em um incêndio que também quase a matou. Agora, uma nova família, os Coleman a adotou e a vida parece ter entrado nos eixos novamente. Até o dia em que uma colega de classe de Esther sofre um acidente mais sério, uma freira é golpeada até a morte e a nova mãe da garota começa a se perguntar se a família de Esther realmente morreu em um incêndio acidental. Produzido pela Dark Castel. A Órfã é um filme que reserva reviravoltas em sua narrativa de thriller psicológico e magnetiza o público na poltrona com elementos de mistério, suspenso e terror. Você nunca esquecerá Esther. Tão doce, tão inteligente, tão criativa...Tão perturbada”
Orphan is a 2009 American thriller film directed by Jaume Collet-Serra, starring Vera Farmiga,Peter Sarsgaard, and Isabelle Fuhrman in the title role. The film centers on a couple who, after the death of their unborn child, adopt a mysterious 9-year old girl. Orphan was produced byJoel Silver and Susan Downey of Dark Castle Entertainment and Leonardo DiCaprio and Jennifer Davisson Killoran of Appian Way Productions.[2] The film was released theatrically in the United States on July 24, 2009.[3] The film received mixed critical reviews but Isabelle Fuhrman's performance as Esther was acclaimed.
Kate Coleman (Vera Farmiga) and John Coleman (Peter Sarsgaard) are experiencing strains in their marriage after Kate's third child was stillborn. The loss is particularly hard on Kate, who is still recovering from a drinking habit. They adopt Esther (Isabelle Fuhrman), a 9-year-old Russian girl, from the local orphanage. While Kate and John's deaf-mute daughter Max (Aryana Engineer) embraces Esther almost immediately, their son Daniel (Jimmy Bennett) is less welcoming.
Kate grows suspicious when Esther expresses far more knowledge of sex than would be expected for a child her age. She is further alarmed when Sister Abigail (C. C. H. Pounder), the head of the orphanage, warns her and John about Esther's tendency to be around when things go wrong. Esther overhears this and kills Sister Abigail by bludgeoning her with a hammer. She convinces Max to help her hide the weapon in their treehouse. Meanwhile, Kate's attempts to tell John about Esther's ways fall on deaf ears.
Daniel decides to retrieve the hammer used to kill Sister Abigail to prove Esther's guilt. He announces his plans to Max and is overheard by Esther, who sets the treehouse on fire. Daniel falls trying to escape the fire. Esther tries to kill him with a rock, but Max shoves her out of the way. Daniel is hospitalized from his fall. Esther unsuccessfully tries to kill him at the hospital by smothering him with a pillow, but doctors save him. Kate, knowing what happened, furiously slaps Esther and knocks her down. Before Kate can do anything else to Esther, she is stopped and restrained by John and a couple of orderlies. As John takes Esther and Max home, the doctors sedate a furious and thrashing Kate.
That night, Esther tries to seduce a drunken John, who finally realizes Kate was telling the truth. He threatens to send her back to the orphanage. Esther, angry and hurt at being spurned, ransacks her room and repeatedly stabs John. Max sees this and hides in her closet. As Kate is coming out of sedation, she receives a call on her cell phone from the Saarne Institute. Dr. Väravra (Karel Roden), reveals that Esther is actually a 33 year-old woman named Leena Klammer. She has hypopituitarism, a disorder that stunted her physical growth, and has spent most of her life posing as a little girl. The doctor tells Kate that Leena is dangerous and especially violent. Kate rushes home, only to find John dead. Leena collects a gun from their safe and shoots Kate in the arm before she goes to search for Max. While firing at Max in their greenhouse, Kate manages to break through from above Leena and knock her out.
Leena follows Kate outside to a frozen pond where they struggle as Max watches from a hill above. Max maneuvers herself to grab the gun that was dropped by Kate during the struggle. She shoots at Leena but breaks the ice instead, causing Kate and Leena to drop into the water below. After a brief struggle under the ice, Kate climbs out followed by Leena. Leena begs Kate not to let her die, calling her "Mommy" while holding a knife behind her back. Kate furiously responds that she's not Leena's mother and kicks her in the face, snapping her neck and sending her back into the pond where she dies. Max and Kate are met by the police moments after.
Controversy
The film's content, depicting a murderous adopted person, was not well received by the adoption community.[4] The controversy caused 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."[5] Melissa Fay Greene of The Daily Beast commented:
"The movie Orphan comes directly from this unexamined place in popular culture. Esther’s shadowy past includes Eastern Europe; she appears normal and sweet, but quickly turns violent and cruel, especially toward her mother. These are clichés. This is the baggage with which we saddle abandoned, orphaned, or disabled children given a fresh start at family life."[6]
[edit]Reception
Critical reaction to Orphan has been mixed, with the film earning a rating of 55% (43% among the Top Critics) on Rotten Tomatoes,[7] where the consensus is: "While it has moments of dark humor and the requisite scares, Orphan fails to build on its interesting premise and degenerates into a formulaic, sleazy horror/thriller". It also earned a 42 out of 100 on Metacritic.[8] Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Timesgave Orphan 3½ stars out of 4, writing: "You want a good horror film about a child from hell, you got one."[9] Mick LaSalle of the San Francisco Chronicle also gave a positive review, saying: "Orphan provides everything you might expect in a psycho-child thriller, but with such excess and exuberance that it still has the power to surprise."[10]
Todd McCarthy of Variety, was less impressed, writing: "Teasingly enjoyable rubbish through the first hour, Orphan becomes genuine trash during its protracted second half."[11] Manohla Dargis of The New York Times wrote, "Actors have to eat like the rest of us, if evidently not as much, but you still have to wonder how the independent film mainstays Vera Farmiga and Peter Sarsgaard ended up wading through Orphanand, for the most part, not laughing."[12] Owen Gleiberman of Entertainment Weekly gave the film a D+ score, saying, "Orphan isn't scary — it's garish and plodding."[13]
Openly (and at times vehemently) negative reviews are abundant: from "galling, distasteful trash" (Eric D. Snider)[14] to "old-fashioned and trashy horror flick" (Emanuel Levy)[15] and "relentlessly bad", albeit "entertaining" (Rob Vaux).[16] According to Dennis Schwartz of Ozus' World Movie Reviews, "The problem with Orphan isn't merely that the film is idiotic--it's that it's also sleazy, formulaic and repellant."[17] And according to Keith Phipps from The A.V. Club, "If director Jaume Collet-Serra set out to make a parody of horror-film clichés, he succeeded brilliantly."[18]
Although the film received mixed reviews, Isabelle Fuhrman's performance was acclaimed and positively received. Emanuel Levy writes Fuhrman "acquits herself with a strong performance, affecting a rather convincing Russian accent and executing sheer evil with an admirable degree of calm and earnestness."[15] Todd McCarthy proclaims that Fuhrman (as well as Bennett and Engineer) is terrific and that she "makes Esther calmly beyond reproach even when faced with monumental evidence against her, and has the requisite great evil eye."[11]Mick LaSalle continues in that Fuhrman "steals the show" and that she "injects nuance into this portrayal, as well as an arch spirit."[10]Roger Ebert determined she "is not going to be convincing as a nice child for a long, long time."[9]
The film was the #4 film at the box office for its opening weekend, making $12.77 million total, behind G-Force, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince and The Ugly Truth respectively. The film has grossed a total of $78,337,373.[19]
[edit]Awards and nominations
| Award | Year | Category | Result | Cast/crew |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Teen Choice Awards | 2009 | Choice Summer Movie: Drama | Nominated | |
| Brussels International Festival of Fantasy Film | 2010 | International Feature Length Competition | Golden Raven |
[edit]Home media
Orphan was released on DVD and Blu-ray on October 27, 2009 in the US by Warner Home Video. It was released on DVD and Blu-ray in the UK on November 27 by Optimum Releasing. The home media include alternate scenes and footage, and one alternate ending marketed on the DVD cover. The opening previews also contain a PSA describing the plight of unadopted children in the USA and encouraging domestic adoption.
Fuhrman at the World of Color Premiere DisneyCalifornia Adventure, 2010
Isabelle Fuhrman was born in Washington, D.C. and raised in Atlanta. Her Soviet-born mother,Elina Fuhrman, is a journalist, and her father, Nick Fuhrman, was at one time the chairman of the Republican Party in Dane County, Wisconsin.[1] She has an older sister, Madeline Fuhrman.
Fuhrman's acting career began at the age of seven, when a casting director from Cartoon Network spotted her waiting for her sister and cast her for one of the shows, “Cartoon Fridays.” Fuhrman made her big screen debut just a few years later in the 2007 drama Hounddog. The same year, Fuhrman was chosen to star in the movie Orphan alongside Vera Farmiga andPeter Sarsgaard. Fuhrman was cast through an exhaustive nationwide search of young actresses to portray the lead in the Warner Bros. collaboration between Leonardo DiCaprio’s Appian Way and Joel Silver’s Dark Castle Entertainment. It was DiCaprio who discovered Fuhrman through an audition tape and decided he wouldn't make Orphan without her. Fuhrman's performance, as eccentric Esther, earned her rave reviews from movie critics in the U.S. and around the world. Her performance was hailed as “awards-worthy” and “one of the most momentous examples of acting from a child performer in years.”
Fuhrman's other credits include the role of Gretchen Dennis (aka Girl Ghost) opposite Jennifer Love Hewitt on the hit TV show Ghost Whisperer, Grace O'Neil in the pilot episode of the 2006 television series Justice, and a number of national commercials like Pizza Hut and K-Mart. Her performance as Gretchen Dennis in Ghost Whisperer earned her a Young Artist Award nomination.[2] Fuhrman also appeared in comedy skits on the Tonight Show with Jay Leno, and she is known to have provided character voices for Cartoon Network's "Cartoon Fridays".
Fuhrman has been cast in the lead role of Angie Vanderveer in the upcoming comedy thriller Salvation Boulevard, based on the novel byLarry Beinhart. Fuhrman is part of an all-star ensemble cast which includes Pierce Brosnan, Marisa Tomei, Greg Kinnear, Jennifer Connellyand Ed Harris. The film is slated for release in 2011.
Her next project is the starring role of Sara Crewe in the modern remake of Shirley Temple's classic, The Little Princess.
Fuhrman's other upcoming releases include Ben Stassen's 3D animated feature Around the World in 50 Years where she plays the voice of Hatchling Shelly, a young turtle who loses track of her friend Sammy who travels the world for 50 years as it is changed by global warming.
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Filmography
| Year | Film | Role | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2006 | Justice | Grace O'Neil | TV |
| 2007 | Hounddog | Grasshopper | |
| 2008 | Ghost Whisperer | Gretchen Dennis | TV |
| 2009 | Orphan | Esther | |
| Children of the Corn | (voice) | ||
| 2010 | Around the World in 50 Years | Hatchling Shelly (voice) | post-production |
| 2011 | Pleading Guilty | Carrie | TV |
| 2011 | Salvation Boo' | Angie | filming |
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