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6.6/10 • 2.1K

2022-07-271h 39m

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There's always been something wrong with Esther.

After escaping from an Estonian psychiatric facility, Leena Klammer travels to America by impersonating Esther, the missing daughter of a wealthy family. But when her mask starts to slip, she is put against a mother who will protect her family from the murderous “child” at any cost.

Directors
William Brent Bell
Characters
Alex Mace
Editors
Josh Ethier

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  1. Isabelle Fuhrman

    Isabelle Fuhrman

    Leena Klammer / Esther Albright

  2. Julia Stiles

    Julia Stiles

    Tricia Albright

  3. Rossif Sutherland

    Rossif Sutherland

    Allen Albright

  4. Hiro Kanagawa

    Hiro Kanagawa

    Detective Donnan

  5. Matthew Finlan

    Matthew Finlan

    Gunnar Albright

  6. Samantha Walkes

    Samantha Walkes

    Dr. Segar

  7. David Lawrence Brown

    David Lawrence Brown

    Dr. Novotny

  8. Lauren Cochrane

    Lauren Cochrane

    Officer Leahy

  9. Gwendolyn Collins

    Gwendolyn Collins

    Anna Troyev

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CinemaSerf

Aug 29, 2022

5/10

"Esther" (Isabelle Fuhrman) is the resident of an high security facility in Estonia where she is a distinct danger to anyone who crosses her path! Rather gorily, she engineers a daring escape and somehow manages to get to the United States where she convinces "Allen" (Rossif Sutherland) that she is his long lost daughter. Well whilst dad might be fooled, the wife "Tricia" (Julia Stiles) and her son "Gunnar" (Matthew Finlan) soon catch on - but it seems that they have secrets of their own to keep. Can an uneasy truce prevail between them? Well, no - of course not but frankly I really couldn't have cared less. She is all too readily accepted into the wealthy American family (no DNA tests with her father to verify?) and as the story plods along, it loses any grasp on plausibility. We are required to believe that "Esther" is this epitome of evil, but the plot has more holes than a Swiss cheese so I kept asking myself just how any of this could ever actually happen - even in cinema land. It does have the benefit of being quite short, and to be fair to director William Brent Bell, he doesn't hang around once what passes for the story gets going. I just found the whole thing too nonsensical and the lead character had more of a petulance to her than any believable sense of menace.

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Status
Released
Original Language
English
Budget
$10,000,000.00
Revenue
$9,572,765.00
Keywords
psychopathfamily secretsprequelmurderimpersonatormental patientpsycho killerescaped mental patientmissing daughterestoniafemale psychopath