裕福な一家、オルブライト家には4年前に行方不明となった一人娘のエスターがいた。だがある日、警察からエスターが見つかったという朗報が入る。父、母、兄は数年振りの再会という信じられない奇跡にこの上ない喜びを感じ、成長したエスターを迎え入れる。当時6歳だった彼女は時をへて10歳になっていた。これから幸せな生活が始まる・・・そう思っていた。この娘が、どこかが変だと気づくまでは。
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製作費: $10,000,000 (15億円)
興行収入: $9,572,765 (14億円)
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脚本: デヴィッド・レスリー・ジョンソン / Alex Mace / David Coggeshall
音楽: Brett Detar
制作: James Tomlinson / Josie Liang / Victor Moyers
撮影監督: Karim Hussain
制作会社: Dark Castle Entertainment / Entertainment One / Eagle Vision
"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.
