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  • Genre: Drama
  • Release Date: 07/24/2009
  • Running Time: 123 mins
  • Director: Jaume Collet-Serra
  • Cast: Vera Farmiga, Peter Sarsgaard, Isabelle Fuhrman, CCH Pounder, Jimmy Bennett
  • Producer: Leonardo DiCaprio, Susan Downey, Jennifer Davisson Killoran, Joel Silver
  • Writer: David Leslie Johnson, Alex Mace
  • Distributor: Warner Bros. Pictures
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  1. Funny People, 23.4 mil, 0.0 mil
  2. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, 17.7 mil, 255.5 mil
  3. G-Force, 17.1 mil, 66.5 mil
  4. The Ugly Truth, 13.0 mil, 54.5 mil
  5. Aliens in the Attic, 7.8 mil, 0.0 mil
  6. Orphan, 7.2 mil, 26.8 mil
  7. Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs, 5.3 mil, 181.8 mil
  8. The Hangover, 5.1 mil, 255.8 mil
  9. The Proposal, 4.8 mil, 148.9 mil
  10. Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, 4.6 mil, 388.1 mil
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Orphan

In this decidedly amoral thriller, Vera Farmiga gives a jittery, complex performance as Kate, a high-strung Connecticut mother of two who has a breakdown after losing her third child in labor. Despite the fact that she is a recovering alcoholic who has been sober for less than a year, and despite the fact that she nearly let her son drown when she was drunk, Kate and her rich architect husband (Peter Sarsgaard) easily win permission to adopt a replacement child. Enter nine-year-old Esther (well-played by 11-year-old Isabelle Fuhrman), a Russian-born beauty whose sweet exterior hides devilish intent. Soon, Esther is doing away with her perceived enemies, a process that includes death-by-hammer and death-by-carving-knife. If director Jaume Collet-Serra (House of Wax), screenwriter David Leslie Johnson, and their big-time co-producers, Joel Silver and Leonardo DiCaprio, have any qualms about explicitly showing a little girl slaughtering people or attempting to seduce a grown man or pointing a gun at the head of her six-year-old stepsister (the wonderful Aryana Engineer), they have clearly worked through them (as have, apparently, the young actor�s respective parents). Silly, overlong, and bloody as hell, Orphan is likely to turn a sweet profit, money that Leo, the renowned do-gooder, should spend with shame. — Chuck Wilson

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