Case 39
2009 · Movie · R · 109 min · ★ 6.3 · 24% critics
A social worker believes she’s seen everything until she takes in a troubled 10-year-old and faces the parents’ cruelty. As she searches for a safe foster placement, disturbing forces close in, turning protection into a descent of escalating horrors and mounting threats.
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Details
- Years
- 2009
- Release date
- 2009-08-13
- Language
- English
- Rated
- R
- Runtime
- 109 min
- Critic score
- 24/100
- TMDB rating
- 6.3/10 (2,392 votes)
About
You’ll like Case 39 if you enjoy dark supernatural horror with relentless suspense and creepy child-centered dread, like Silent Hill or A Nightmare on Elm Street; Not for you if you want fresh premises or lots of gore.
Pros: tense supernatural dread; strong child performance; suspenseful momentum | Cons: familiar demon-kid tropes; slow/uneven pacing; sometimes predictable
Themes
- child abuse
- social worker
- detective
- office
- supernatural
- murder
- mental institution
- cityscape
- drawn
- falling elevator
- pier
- super power
- +3 more
Cast & crew
Renée Zellweger
as Emily Jenkins
Jodelle Ferland
as Lillith Sullivan
Ian McShane
as Detective Mike Barron
Bradley Cooper
as Douglas J. Ames
Adrian Lester
as Wayne
Kerry O'Malley
as Margaret Sullivan
Callum Keith Rennie
as Edward Sullivan
Cynthia Stevenson
as Nancy
Alexander Conti
as Diego
- PC
Philip Cabrita
as Javier
Directed by Christian Alvart