Orphan
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Continuity mistake: When the car rolls down the hill and crashes into the snow bank, snow is kicked up onto the car. Camera cuts and the snow has disappeared. (01:13:00)

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Continuity mistake: When the kid holds the bible out for Esther in the hallway, in one shot the kid is holding it with one hand, then with 2 when Esther grabs it. (00:32:50)

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Mistakes

Continuity mistake: After Esther suffocates Daniel in the hospital, Kate slaps Esther in the face. The hospital staff then hold down Kate and she drops her iPhone, screen down. The iPhone starts ringing, even though the screen is facing the floor. In the next scene, it is still ringing, but with the screen facing upwards.

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Quotes

Esther: Please... Don't let me die, Mommy.
Kate Coleman: I'm not your fucking mommy!

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Trivia

Trivia: In a real life case strikingly similar to the plot of this film, it was revealed in October 2019 that an Indiana couple in 2010 had adopted what they believed to be an 8-year-old Ukranian girl whom they later discovered to be a sociopathic young adult with a form of dwarfism, whose age they estimated to be anywhere from 16 to 30.

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Questions

Question: Maybe I missed something, but how was Esther able to fool everyone practically all her life and hide the fact that she's a 33-year old sociopath? When Kate finally learns the truth by getting the phone call, they show a photo of the "real" Esther, so at least those records of her exist somewhere. How could the boarding school not have known her true identity?

Answer: The boarding school was going by the falsified records that Esther had with her. They did not suspect anything, so they had no reason to dig any further at the time.

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Answer: High quality makeup was an important part of her disguise as the alternative ending make apparent. Her fake freckles were the master's touch.

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