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Orphan(2009)
Released
2009 · FILM

Orphan

A grieving mother desperate to rebuild her family adopts a seemingly sweet Russian girl, only to discover the child harbors a deadly secret that threatens her children and forces her to confront the darkness within.

“There's something wrong with Esther.”

Directed by
Jaume Collet Serra
Written by
David Leslie Johnson Mcgoldrick, Alex Mace
Rated
MPA · R
Runtime
123 min
HorrorMysteryThriller

Synopsis

A married couple, after experiencing the loss of their baby, adopt Esther, a 9-year-old girl whose true nature may be more complex than it initially appears.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 31

These are the principals we have on file — the full crew ran to the hundreds. Every film this size was made by far more hands than any credits list ever names.

Why a floor?

This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Edited by Timothy AlversonShot by Jeff CutterScored by John OttmanDesigned by Tom Meyer

Box Office

2009 · Box office

✅ Made its money back — grossed 3.9× its budget

Why 2.5×?

Cinemas keep roughly half of every ticket sold, and a wide release’s marketing often costs about as much again as the film — so a movie needs to gross around 2.5× its production budget just to break even theatrically. It’s a rule of thumb, not the studio’s ledger (home video and streaming come later).

Worldwide gross

$77.9M

Budget$20.0M
Worldwide gross$77.9M
break-even (2.5×)

US & Canada: $41.6M — 53% of worldwide · International: $36.3M (47%)

Opening weekend: $12.9M — 31% of its US run.

Opening week (7-day): $19.5M — 47% of its US & Canada run.

Peak 2,750 theaters

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Also known as

  • Orphan - Das Waisenkindde
  • La huérfanaes
  • Estherfr

Companies

ProductionDark Castle Entertainment, Appian Way, Studio Babelsberg Motion Pictures

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