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‘Good American Family’ True Story: Who Is the Real-Life Family?

Behind almost every gripping crime thriller series is a chilling true story. Find out what inspired Hulu’s ‘Good American Family.’

Image Credit: DisneyIn 2009, Orphan became a cult classic and unique horror — a film about a family that adopts a 9-year-old Russian girl named Esther, who turns out to be a cold-blooded 33-year-old woman with dwarfism posing as a child. The show focuses on a Midwestern couple who adopts a young girl with a rare form of dwarfism, “but as they begin to raise her alongside their three biological children, mystery emerges around her age and background, and they slowly start to suspect she may not be who she says she is.” “As they defend their family from the daughter they’ve grown to believe is a threat, she fights her own battle to confront her past and what her future holds in a showdown that ultimately plays out in the tabloids and the courtroom,” the rest of the logline reads.

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