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- Esther and the King (1960) Slide 1 of 6. Recommended for Kids: No. Where to Watch. More Biblical fiction than Biblical epic, Esther and the King makes more than the usual additions to the story.
- Queen Esther (1948) Slide 2 of 6. Rating: Not Rated. Recommended for Kids: Yes. Where to Watch. A lower-budget effort released by Cathedral Films, which produced various movies based on Bible stories, Queen Esther follows the biblical text more closely than big-budget epics like Esther and the King.
- VeggieTales: Esther, The Girl Who Became Queen (2000) Slide 3 of 6. Recommended for Kids: Yes. Where to Watch. VeggieTales covered most of the famous Bible stories at some point during their original series.
- The Bible Collection: Esther (1999) Slide 4 of 6. Recommended for Kids: Depends. Where to Watch. This 90-minute TV movie (released as part of The Bible Collection in the 1990s and early 2000s) provides a more balanced take on Esther than other costume dramas.
Esther, also known as The Bible: Esther, is a 1999 American-Italian-German television film based on the Book of Esther, directed by Raffaele Mertes and starring Louise Lombard as Queen Esther, F. Murray Abraham as Mordechai, Jürgen Prochnow as Haman, Thomas Kretschmann as King Achashverosh and Ornella Muti as Vashti.
- Biblical Drama
Dec 5, 2000 · The Bible Collection: Esther: Directed by Raffaele Mertes. With Louise Lombard, F. Murray Abraham, Jürgen Prochnow, Thomas Kretschmann. The Bible story of Esther starring Louise Lombard, F. Murray Abraham and Jurgen Prochnow.
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- Biography, Drama, History
- Raffaele Mertes
- 2000-12-05
Oct 13, 2006 · One Night with the King: Directed by Michael O. Sajbel. With Tiffany Dupont, Luke Goss, John Noble, Omar Sharif. In Biblical times, a girl disguises her Jewish origins when the Persian king comes looking for a new bride among his subjects.
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- Michael O. Sajbel
- 2006-10-13
- The True Stories Behind Orphan
- Orphan May Have Inspired A Copycat Crime
- The Orphan Prequel Also Shares Parallels with Real Life
- Orphan: First Kill's Practical Effects Show How Easy It Is to Be Fooled
- How Actress Isabelle Fuhrman Became Esther in The Orphan Movies
The Case Of Barbora Skrlová Is The True Story Behind The Orphan Horror Movie
The Orphan true story is the case of Barbora Skrlová. The inspiration for Orphan shot to international infamy in 2008 when 13-year-old “Adam,” an adopted boy in Norway, went missing, and it was discovered that he was actually Barbora Skrlová — a 33-year-old Czech woman.Skrlová committed her first crimes in the Czech Republic where she went to live with two sisters, Klara and Katerina Mauerova, and Klara’s two children. Klara had significant mental illness, so much so that it was the cause of...
The Movie Might Have Created A True Crime Tale Of Its Own
After the original film's 2009 release, nearly 10 years later, a unique case came to light that may have been inspired both by Orphan's real story and the fictional events of the movie. Indiana couple Kristine and Michael Barnett were well-versed in raising children with special needs. In 2010, they adopted six-year-old Natalia Grace from Ukraine; she had a form of dwarfism that made it difficult for her to walk. Natalia had been in the US for about two years when she came to live with the Ba...
Orphan: First Kill Mirrors The Natalia Grace Case
The sequel - Orphan: First Kill - builds on the lore of Esther 13 years after the first movie's original release. It seems to have drawn a little inspiration from the true-to-life case that the Orphan's real story inspired as well, with Esther pretending to have ties to the United States similar to how Kristine and Michael Barnett adopted Ukrainian Natalia Grace. Moreover, from the beginning to the ending of Orphan: First Kill, Isabelle Fuhrman convincingly plays a younger version of the same...
The Orphan Franchise Proves Its Premise Isn't Far-Fetched
How Isabelle Fuhrman's de-aging in Orphan: First Kill was cleverly achieved through practical effects not only signals a refreshing return to the fundamentals of horror - it also makes it clear that the premise can all too easily occur in real life. This is part of what makes Orphan and Orphan: First Kill truly frightening movies. Disturbingly, the Orphan's real story may not be entirely over. If the team behind Orphan: First Kill can successfully turn a 24-year-old actor into an 8-year-old g...
De-Aging Was An Intense Process For The Star Of Orphan
Tasked with starring in both adaptations of the Orphan's real story, Isabelle Fuhrman reveals how playing Esther was a unique acting exercise. “For me, a lot of the preparation for the new thing was kind of discovering a childlike quality to Esther, because I think the first time around when I did this, as a kid, I was so concerned with pretending to be an adult,” said Fuhrman (via MovieWeb), “and this time, I actually had to put myself in Leena’s shoes and pretend to be a kid. To find that a...
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A comic crossover between Mike Allred's Madman and Bernie Mireault's The Jam, features Escher as a central character when the two characters enter into an alternate universe created by a somewhat godlike Escher, based on many of his works. In 2006 Audi released a commercial with many Escher-inspired scenes.
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Mar 3, 2023 · 7. “The Book of Esther” (2013) The worst thing a biblical adaptation can do — ahead even of inaccuracy — is be boring. The millennia-old story of Esther has great drama and shocking twists, but this film has none of the emotional or dramatic weight that’s essential to the story.
