Orphan

Movie • 2009 • Horror  

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Does the dog die?
751 supporters
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There's absolutely no dogs in this movie that are killed or harmed.
Only a pigeon is killed.
Misanthrope
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Are there tsunamis?
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Abandonment
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A good portion of the film revolves around a mother recognizing that an adopted child poses a danger for her biological children and attempting to have her removed. She offers to leave her husband and children as long as the adopted child is removed from the family.
GentlyUsedLamp
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Is an animal abandoned?
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Abuse
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***** This is a POSSIBLE trigger for some who have sensitivities with medical environments / doctors / surgeon scenes. *****

The movie opens with a woman in labour, she has no consent in the medical procedures that proceed complications
on1yange1
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Worthy of note: To add to the above, Esther also breaks her own arm on purpose after Kate grabs it to make her look like an abusive mother.
K1R1t0
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Yes. Esther repeatedly tricks the mom in order to get the dad’s attention. Esther basically tries to separate the mom and dad.
RoseTheHat
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There is a straight jacket
Anonymous
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Esther, real name Lena, was sexually abused as a child by her father, and after being placed in foster care, started to seek out men who were the same, as that was the only kind of fatherly "love" she knew; especially due to her condition that causes her to look like a prepubescent child well into her 30s, who were ever attracted to her were predators. If the adopted father ever turned her down, she would kill him and the rest of his family.

We see her behavior in detail with the Colemans; she latches onto and forces Max to help her, she threatens to castrate Danny, attempts to burn him alive, and then smothers him, I'd honestly be here all day if I list everything she did to the mom, and she tried to force herself on the dad while he was drunk.
MikeyRose
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Is someone stalked?
31 supporters
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I think that even though it's in the presence of her home, what Esther does is essentially stalk people/watch and follow them without them being fully aware.
LeiaPasquarelli
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Is a child abused?
1 supporters
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5
one of the characters goes through a lot of it.
CopingWithStress
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The mother attacks the adopted "child" on multiple occasions. The adopted child attempts to frame her mother for abuse by breaking her own arm.
GentlyUsedLamp
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Addiction
Yes
86
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mom is a recovering alcoholic; dad gets drunk in one scene
twitchywitchygirl
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Is there addiction?
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The mother once had an alcohol addiction, but she’s overcome it.
RoseTheHat
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9
Alcohol and cigarettes are used, but no other substances.
dannyb
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Animal
Does a cat die?
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82
Are there snakes?
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80
Are there sharks?
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Are there alligators/crocodiles??
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Yes, a bird is shot with a paintball gun and Esther crushes it with a rock to put it out of its misery. It’s a gory scene.
RoseTheHat
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Is an animal sad?
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4
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A bird is shot with a paintball gun and then suffers for around a minute, u can clearly see it is in misery.
QAELIX
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Are rabbits harmed?
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Were animals harmed in the making?
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Does a pet die?
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Does a dragon die?
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78
Are there spiders?
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78
Does a horse die?
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Does an animal die?
(besides a dog, cat or horse)
1 supporters
Yes
124
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1
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A pigeon is attacked and killed at about 28 minutes.
Anonymous
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Are animals abused?
1 supporters
Yes
113
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A pigeon is seen being shot by a paintball gun on purpose.
RoseTheHat
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Are there bugs?
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Assault
Yes
20
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41
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Main character is a grown woman pretending to be a child, and attempts to seduce her adopted father.
AlinaMayim
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Is there pedophilia?
170 supporters
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Yes and no? MAJOR SPOILERS
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The main character is presented as a child for the duration of the film, but the twist is that she is actually a 30-something year old woman with a rare form of dwarfism. This twist is already known by the audience (but not the father) at the time she attempts to seduce him.
insomniacsdream
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Is rape mentioned?
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not jokes, but later in movie esther tries so seduce her foster dad witch results in him being uncomfortable and walking away telling her he doesn’t see them like that
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Is someone drugged?
43 supporters
Yes
12
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That's quite hard to answer because Kate gets drugged in the hospital after kind of breaking down but no one is drugged in a manipulative way.
ovchre
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The mother is restrained after attacking Esther, Esther is mentioned to have previously been restrained in a straight jacket
GentlyUsedLamp
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Is someone held under water?
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The mother slaps Esther after she suspects she attempted to kill her son
GentlyUsedLamp
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Is someone beaten up by a bully?
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Yes
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A boy is suffocated with a pillow
GentlyUsedLamp
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Bodily Harm
Is there finger/toe mutilation?
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Is there decapitation?
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Is there a hanging?
69 supporters
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no, but there is a small painting of somebody hanging in one of esther's hidden blacklight paintings
twitchywitchygirl
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Theres slashing with a knife
quirklessbunny
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Is someone buried alive?
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Is there amputation?
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No, but it is threatened (Esther threatening to cut off Danny's p***s
MikeyRose
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Also a person is smothered with a pillow in the hospital.
GinnyCornett
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Is there Achilles Tendon injury?
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Yes
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Yes. Esther pushes her bully off a slide, which results in the bully breaking her leg. It is shown in graphic detail. Esther also breaks her own arm by using a crushing device.
RoseTheHat
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Is someone choked?
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7
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2
Are any hands damaged?
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Is someone stabbed?
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8
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Are there dislocations?
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Yes
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Down a slide.
iloveyou.com
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No one falls to their death but the son falls from high up and ends up in the ICU
quirklessbunny
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A child becomes unconscious after someone tries to kill him with a pillow. The child also becomes unconscious because he's falling from a treehouse.
ovchre
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Someone is threatened with it
GwendolynCox
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Is there eye mutilation?
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Does someone have a seizure?
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Yes
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When Esther purposefully breaks her arm, the moment the break happens is show on screen
MikeyRose
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Yes
55
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4
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Both physical and psychological.
LeiaPasquarelli
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Yes
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9
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Mentions how some other people burned alive and shows it in a drawing
Anonymous
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4
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No teeth are pulled or smashed, but Esther wears dentures to hide her real teeth. Her real teeth are rotten and gross.
RoseTheHat
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Esther smashes someone's head in with a hammer, theres lots of blood, fire, etc.
iloveyou.com
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Is there cannibalism?
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Yes
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It's attempted, but the person who tries it is tackled out of the way before they can succeed. Someone also gets beaten in the head with a hammer multiple times, however it's not technically "squashing".
dannyb
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A bird is crushed with a rock, a woman's skull is bashed in with a hammer, and Esther attempts to crush a boys skull with a rock
GentlyUsedLamp
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0
No, but Esther has scars around her neck
GentlyUsedLamp
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Does someone asphyxiate?
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Children
Is a minor sexualized?
142 supporters
Yes
13
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Main Character dresses provocative and tries to seduce her father while he’s drunk (he doesn’t know her real age)
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Does a kid die?
1 supporters
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No
4
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A child comes near death twice, it is talked about a little kid trips and has scissors go through her jaw, however no children die on screen
TheoRagnarok
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Is an infant abducted?
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Creepy Crawly
Are there bedbugs?
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Death
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Two of the main characters, John and Esther, die
MikeyRose
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Does someone die?
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Does someone sacrifice themselves?
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Does a non-human character die?
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10
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2
Disability
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Esther is actually a grown woman with dwarfism but the character is played by an able bodied child
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Is the r-slur used?
1 supporters
Yes
37
No
2
0
At around 33 minutes a kid uses it in a derogatory manner.
ThumbsAreHandy
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Drugs/Alcohol
Does someone overdose?
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Family
Does someone cheat?
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2
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The dad cheats on the mom.
RoseTheHat
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Does a family member die?
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Yes
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No
35
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a stuffed animal is cut open to hide something
twitchywitchygirl
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Does a parent die?
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77
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6
Yes, the dad dies after being killed by Esther.
RoseTheHat
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Is someone kidnapped?
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Fear
Are there razors?
S.A.F.E. ALTERNATIVES® (1-800-DONTCUT)
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8
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2
Is someone possessed?
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Yes
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No
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No shower scene.
AliceBell
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Are there ghosts?
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Are there mannequins?
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10
0
An icy lake serves as the final battleground for the last confrontation
MoosaRoo
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Yes
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Yes, a list is available on Where's The Jump
QAELIX
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Is trypophobic content shown?
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8
Are there clowns?
1 supporters
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5
No
56
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Very briefly when they visit the orphanage. The clown is shown in the background twice, both times for a split second
lrrrbch
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Gross
Does someone vomit?
177 supporters
Yes
4
No
91
10
Dont know why theres one vote on yes, its 100% safe, no mentions of it and no act
Skylergrace
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Is there defecation?
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9
Is someone eaten?
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11
Yes
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Danny wets himself when Esther is threatening him.
AliceBell
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Is there farting?
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10
Yes
53
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1
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you can hear bones breaking, someone being stabbed and there's also the pretty graphic sound of someone's head being bashed in
ohgodohfuck
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Does someone spit?
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Large-scale Violence
Are there 9/11 depictions?
8 supporters
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Yes
0
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16
Law Enforcement
Is there copaganda?
51 supporters
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0
No
28
Yes
1
No
7
0
A character was previously incarcerated in a mental institution, but it is not shown
GentlyUsedLamp
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LGBTQ+
Yes
0
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8
Are there transphobic slurs?
76 supporters
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Yes
0
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10
Is there deadnaming or birthnaming?
48 supporters
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Yes
0
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9
Is an LGBT+ person outed?
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Yes
0
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8
Is there bisexual cheating?
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0
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10
Loss
3
Not exact but I can't imagine it doesn't count. Earlier in the movie the mother tells Esther that the ashes of her stillborn child were sprinkled in a rose plant so as long as it lived her child would live in it, Esther later cuts the flowers. This is not glossed over or a quick scene, the mother gets very visibly upset.
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Medical
Is electro-therapy used?
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55
Are there heart attacks?
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Yes
0
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No, however someone is seen having a miscarriage in a graphic way (screaming, loads of blood-loss, etc.)
QAELIX
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There's a long hospital scene close to the end of the movie.
KnightWhoSaysNi
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Yes
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When Kate loses her cool at the hospital & slaps Esther she is seized by orderlies & given an injection to sedate her
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Is there a mental institution scene?
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Yes
70
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1
Does someone have cancer?
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Yes
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Mental Health
Does someone self harm?
S.A.F.E. ALTERNATIVES® (1-800-DONTCUT)
118 supporters
Yes
74
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2
7
Character breaks own arm. Same character has scars on wrists and neck from resisting restraints
TheoRagnarok
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Is there misophonia?
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Yes
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0
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yes it is a major plot point
twitchywitchygirl
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Not in a manipulative way, but Kate is suicidal
iloveyou.com
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Is reality unstable or unhinged?
38 supporters
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8
Yes
8
No
36
2
max hides in a clothes hamper in a closet
twitchywitchygirl
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6
7
*SPOILERS* The paintings on Esther's walls (revealed in the final act) heavily imply she suffers from body dysmorphia. In the paintings she depicts herself as looking closer her true age (33)
MikeyRose
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Is there D.I.D. misrepresentation?
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10
Yes
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Esther is shown having an anxiety attack in a bathroom stall after talking with a therapist. The scene itself cuts from the couple talking to the same therapist, and Esther in the bathroom.
MikeyRose
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Is there body dysphoria?
21 supporters
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10
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It is rumoured Esther has a personality disorder, also the mother shows clear signs of PTSD, and had an addiction.
QAELIX
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Does someone have a meltdown?
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0
Yes
29
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3
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Don't know why people are voting no. PTSD from a miscarriage and another child's near death experience is real
LeiaPasquarelli
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55
Is there ABA therapy?
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9
Is autism misrepresented?
1 supporters
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Yes
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9
Yes
0
No
16
3
Kate tells the therapist she wants to kill herself sometimes, but that is all
georgiarose
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Yes
12
No
37
6
The brother used the r-slur and said Esther should go back to the ‘r-slur camp’
quirklessbunny
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Noxious
Is there shakey cam?
63 supporters
Yes
6
No
36
2
It isn’t super visible but quite a bit of the movie is filmed free hand.
Buddi2019
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6
Black lights flipping/flickering on and off
TheoRagnarok
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Are there sudden loud noises?
56 supporters
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Yes
7
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1
Is there screaming?
22 supporters
Yes
8
No
0
0
Amongst other scenes, the movie starts off with a pretty graphic/upsetting hospital scene - the mom is having a ptsd flashback of losing her baby at the hospital and screams "no"/cries in the flashback
Chlo3.
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9
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0
0
An extremely tense fight to the death occurs under freezing water beneath an ice sheet
MoosaRoo
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Is there obscene language/gestures?
14 supporters
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Yes
10
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0
Does a baby cry?
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Yes
27
No
0
Paranoia
Is the fourth wall broken?
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Yes
0
No
22
0
Esther is spying on John and Kate when they first arrive a the orphanage, she spies on them when they start to have sex in the kitchen, it's heavily implied Esther knew Kate was snooping through her stuff, she watches Danny sleep before he wakes up and she threatens him, she listens in on the conversation John and Kate have with the nun and later some other people, and she keeps watching Heather, the bully, at the playground resulting in Heather becoming extremely paranoid until Esther appears and shoves her off the slide
MikeyRose
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Pregnancy
Does a pregnant person die?
1 supporters
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Yes
0
No
59
Yes
36
No
0
4
Graphic body horror in the form of a nightmare.
LeiaPasquarelli
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Are there babies or unborn children?
1 supporters
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Yes
32
No
0
Yes
71
No
1
7
A very very gory scene right in the beginning where the mom screams and lots of blood is shown. She's then presented with her dead child wrapped in cloth and covered in blood.
Nima
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Are there abortions?
1 supporters
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Yes
0
No
55
Yes
83
No
0
7
Early in the movie. Also Mentioned throughout the movie
Anonymous
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Prejudice
Are there fat jokes?
65 supporters
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Yes
0
No
52
Are there "Man in a dress" jokes?
55 supporters
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Yes
0
No
32
Does an LGBT person die?
43 supporters
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Yes
0
No
54
Is there hate speech?
41 supporters
Yes
53
No
7
2
Character gets called. "retard"
TheoRagnarok
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3
(spoilers)

It is revealed that Esther is a little person pretending to be a child, to seduce the fathers of families that adopt her. It is very bad representation of little people, with the intent to make them scary.
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Are there usages of the n-word?
40 supporters
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0
No
42
Yes
0
No
46
Is there aphobia?
27 supporters
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Yes
0
No
10
Yes
69
No
3
18
The first character to die is a black woman.
nickg
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Are there homophobic slurs?
1 supporters
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Yes
0
No
45
8
Son says that the adopted daughter came from the "retard camp"
jlister1997
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Race
Is there blackface?
47 supporters
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Yes
0
No
10
Relationships
Yes
16
No
2
3
while it’s not technically a large age gap, but she looks and acts nine throughout the movie. so it’s very uncomfortable to watch
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Religious
Are there demons or Hell?
1 supporters
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Yes
0
No
6
Yes
1
No
7
0
Not fully discussed, but Esther is shown to at the very least pretend to be religious, carrying around a bible and praying before she eats dinner
MikeyRose
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Sex
Is there bestiality?
121 supporters
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Yes
0
No
11
Yes
79
No
0
11
parents have sex
alice5x
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Yes
18
No
1
0
around 1h 40min into the movie there are naked drawings on the walls of a bedroom
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Is someone sexually objectified?
55 supporters
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Yes
21
No
0
Is there BDSM?
37 supporters
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Yes
0
No
7
Does someone lose their virginity?
21 supporters
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Yes
0
No
8
Are there incestuous relationships?
National Sexual Assault Hotline 800.656.4673
1 supporters
Yes
55
No
11
16
There's an uncomfortable scene towards the end. It's not technically incestuous and nothing actually happens except a failed attempt at seduction but it is uncomfortable to watch. The character who is making their move is also seemingly a minor.
dannyb
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Sexism
Yes
0
No
20
Sickness
Is there dementia/Alzheimer's?
1 supporters
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Yes
0
No
12
Does someone have a stroke?
1 supporters
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Yes
0
No
15
Is someone terminally ill?
1 supporters
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Yes
0
No
7
Does someone have a chronic illness?
1 supporters
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Yes
2
No
9
Social
Are there anti-abortion themes?
44 supporters
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Yes
0
No
9
Is existentialism debated?
17 supporters
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Yes
0
No
8
Is someone homeless?
4 supporters
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Yes
0
No
21
Are there fat suits?
1 supporters
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Yes
0
No
10
Spoiler
Is Santa (et al) spoiled?
10 supporters
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Yes
2
No
46
Yes
7
No
52
0
It has a bit of an open ending, you don't see the antagonist die on screen, so there can be room for the possibility that she survived.
QAELIX
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0
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No, there are pictures and illustrations during the first part of the credits, but no actual stingers.
QAELIX
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Vehicular
Does a car honk or tires screech?
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there are several very close calls, but technically no, nobody is hit by a car. a car crashes, but into a building and nobody is hurt
twitchywitchygirl
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Does a car crash?
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3 car incidents:

Esther pushes Max onto the road in front of sister Abigail's oncoming car, causing her to swerve violently (just avoiding Max) & skid to a stop. She manages not to hit anything or roll the car though.

When Kate is dropping Daniel to school she momentarily steps out leaving Max on the back-seat, only for Esther to sneak in & release the parking brake (& shift the gear stick to neutral), causing the car to start rolling backwards down the hill. After a couple of near misses (cars swerving out of the way) the car fortunately slams into a snow bank bringing it to a stop without injury.

When Kate is racing home from the hospital during a snow storm, desperately attempting to reach John, she narrowly avoids crashing a number of times until she finally crashes intentionally through the front of the house.
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Does a plane crash?
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Violence
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Yes. Esther breaks her own arm. You can’t see much blood, but you can see her arm snap. Esther also pushes her bully off of a slide, which results in the bully’s leg breaking. This is shown in graphic detail. You can clearly see the leg snap. The dad is killed Esther and has blood on him. Esther kills a bird by smashing it. Esther dies by getting kicked in the face by the mom and blood squirts out.
RoseTheHat
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Is there a nuclear explosion?
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Does someone drown?
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Ester at the end
Inga
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multiple gun shots in climatic scene, daniel shoots a paintball gun, a gun is held to max's head and she's asked if she wants to play Russian Roulette
twitchywitchygirl
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