The award-winning Orphan films.
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The fact that we got an "origin story" for her creepy, haphazard blacklight paintings and the creepy music she liked...the depth!! The narrative!!
Me and the boyfriend are watching this weekend, he hadn’t seen the first one and was gagged when we watched Saturday night! Iconic movie still changing lives!
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Julia Stiles putting in her earphones on the plane instead of bonding with her daughter she hasn’t seen in like 5 years. Queen.
Me after watching Blue on Hulu, and 10 Things I Hate About You, and literally every time she shows up on my screen.
My formerly Mormon ass immediately thinking Lorenzo Snow.
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Okay I just got to the twist and I understand why now fjdjdjjd
In an effort not to lose my Ellen Pompeo #1 Stan status I'd be remiss not to mention that she's about to produce/star in an 'Untitled Orphan Limited Series' that is seemingly unrelated to these films but... sounds the same? (I've actually yet to see them but they're on my watch list for this spooky season).
In the untitled show, a Midwestern couple adopts what they believe is an 8-year-old girl with a rare form of dwarfism. But as they begin to raise her alongside their three biological children, they slowly start to believe she may not be who she says she is. As they question her story, they’re confronted with hard questions of their own about the lengths they’re willing to go to defend themselves, falling into a battle that’s fought in the tabloids, the courtroom, and ultimately their marriage.
Created and written by Katie Robbins, the project is inspired a true story. The shocking case, which has drawn parallels to the 2009 horror movie Orphan, made national headlines in September 2019 when Kristine Barnett and her ex-husband Michael Barnett were charged with neglect for allegedly abandoning their adopted daughter Natalia, who has a rare form of dwarfism, when she was 9. The parents have claimed that Natalia, whom they adopted when they thought she was 6, is in fact a mentally disturbed adult woman who threatened their lives. Most of the charges against the Barnetts eventually were dismissed; Natalia has denied the accusations that she is a grownup con artist.
In the untitled show, a Midwestern couple adopts what they believe is an 8-year-old girl with a rare form of dwarfism. But as they begin to raise her alongside their three biological children, they slowly start to believe she may not be who she says she is. As they question her story, they’re confronted with hard questions of their own about the lengths they’re willing to go to defend themselves, falling into a battle that’s fought in the tabloids, the courtroom, and ultimately their marriage.
Created and written by Katie Robbins, the project is inspired a true story. The shocking case, which has drawn parallels to the 2009 horror movie Orphan, made national headlines in September 2019 when Kristine Barnett and her ex-husband Michael Barnett were charged with neglect for allegedly abandoning their adopted daughter Natalia, who has a rare form of dwarfism, when she was 9. The parents have claimed that Natalia, whom they adopted when they thought she was 6, is in fact a mentally disturbed adult woman who threatened their lives. Most of the charges against the Barnetts eventually were dismissed; Natalia has denied the accusations that she is a grownup con artist.
I won’t explain myself, but I’ve had a lifelong hatred for Julia Stiles (I think I was born with it), to the point where I would have an overwhelming urge to walk into traffic when I saw her morose face gazing down at me from billboards for Riviera.
But after THIS?
But after THIS?
Sounds like you need a rewatch! Steal an airplane bottle of vodka from your mom and have a kii.
The way Julia Stiles was ok having a murderous woman pretending to be a child living with her and feeding her rat smoothies just so she could get better dick from her husband was legit icon behavior.
Managed to catch the last showing at my local theatre. The
Esther knicking the jeep, flipping the bird and proceeding to drive whilst bopping to Maniac and applying some lip colour—CAMP!
If we don’t get a third instalment by 2035….
Julia Stiles twist was sooo delicious; honestly could’ve watched a three-hour version of her and Isabelle Fuhrmamn throwing jabs and serving cunT.
If we don’t get a third instalment by 2035….
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Every time they cut from Isabelle's front to her body double's back... camp.
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Queen of pop. Tropical house remix when?
THIS was my other hot take from the film that I can't forget. Other than the varying heights of Esther as a child.
It was giving...
