the parents didn't deserve any children at all, so unlikable, horrible movie

Rating: 1/10 (22 April 2015)

The child actors in this movie were amazing. Absolutely believable, great actors. The adult actors were fine, i suppose, but the characters they were portraying are horrible people who shouldn't have had custody of any children at all. The father is an idiot who should have taken his kids from his wife a long time ago and left her high and dry. The mother is an alcoholic with one child who really needs attention, another who is disabled and another that passed away. The mother only ever pays attention to her own needs to the point that one of the kids fell in an iced over pond and nearly drowned because mom was too blitzed to care. Said mother also lost her job for alcoholism. And lost a baby, before during or after the alcoholism, the movie doesn't specify. The father constantly whines and mopes about her being a horrible parent but does absolutely nothing to protect his children. The mother has bipolar tendencies and serious anger issues she takes out on her kids, after ignoring them while dreaming about another bottle. So, the solution to these problems is to adopt another child, says this movie. We get to watch these two horrible parents, a father too self involved to care about the safety of his children, and a mother who is too addicted to care about the safety of her children, spiral even further into their selfish problems while a whacked out adult with a disease that stopped her from aging twenty or thirty years ago takes advantage of this completely jacked up family, nearly kills the kids, and does kill a few other people. And the end of the movie? The happy ending we'll all be satisfied with? The kids are rescued by a relative who actually gives a crap about them? Nope, dad is killed and the kids are now left with one parent, their awesome, alcoholic, negligent, horrible mother who'd rather let them drown in a pond than put down the bottle. I can't believe anyone watched this and said, 'wow, i really like this movie, what great family values, everyone wins in the end!' I think the ending was the only good 'horror' part of the movie, as those kids will prob be dead within the year after their mom lets them play in traffic, drink Drano, play with fire, run with scissors, use the chain saw, drive the car or play in an icy pond while she's busy focusing on the important things in life: one or two of the thirty seven bottles of alcohol in the family wet bar. It was disappointing that alcoholism and parenting was portrayed like this in this type of movie. The movie was supposed to be about an orphan, as the title said. However, the scariest parts of the movie were when the mother had any interaction with her kids. As stated above, the ending was horrible and the whole movie left me with a bad taste in my mouth. It also portrayed the adoption process as 'anyone could do it, as long as you have enough money'. I thought there were rigorous background checks, etc. I don't know, maybe other people found this movie entertaining, I did not. I was constantly cringing at the adult themes going on around these kids, at the parents just not caring what they did or said or where they did it and who could walk in on it.