The Orphanage (film)
The Orphanage Spanish El Orfanato is a 2007 Spanish horror film and the debut feature of Spanish filmmaker J. A. Bayona. The film stars Beln Rueda as Laura, Fernando Cayo as her husband, Carlos, and Roger Prncep as their adopted son Simn. The plot centers on Laura, who returns to her childhood home, an orphanage. Laura plans to turn the house into a home for disabled children, but after an argument with Laura, Simn is found to be missing.
In 1975 Spain, a young girl named Laura is given up for adoption. Years later, adult Laura Rueda returns to the closed orphanage, accompanied by her husband, Carlos Cayo, and their sevenyearold adopted son, Simn Prncep. She plans to reopen the orphanage as a facility for disabled children. Simn claims to see a boy named Toms scar Casas. He befriends Toms and draws pictures of him as a child wearing a sack mask. Social worker Benigna Escobedo Montserrat Carulla informs Laura that Simns adoption file indicates that Simn is HIV positive. Incensed at Benignas intrusion, Laura asks her to leave. She later finds Benigna in the orphanages coal shed, but Benigna flees the scene. Later, Simn teaches Laura a game which grants its winner a wish. Clues lead the two to Simns adoption file. Simn becomes angry, and says that his new friend told him that Laura is not his biological mother and that he is going to die soon.During a party at the orphanage, Laura and Simn argue, and Simn hides from her. While looking for him, she encounters a child wearing a sack mask who shoves her into a bathroom and locks her inside. Escaping, she finds that Simn is missing and she is unable to find him. That night Laura hears several loud crashes. Police psychologist Pilar Mabel Rivera suggests to Laura and Carlos that Benigna may have abducted Simn. ........
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