Additional information for Case 39, which has a domestic theatrical release set for October 1, 2010. The film is being distributed by Paramount Pictures and has not yet been rated. Case 39 has a total running time of 109 minutes.
R
USA
18
Ireland
R16
New Zealand
NC-16
Singapore
18
South Korea
16
Argentina
15
UK
MA
Australia
B15
Mexico
IIB
Hong Kong
16
Netherlands
K-15
Finland
R-18
Philippines
15
Sweden
16
Brazil
-12
France
18
Spain
PG12
Japan
18SG
Malaysia
13+
Canada
16
Germany
M/18
Portugal
109min
Caso 39
Argentina
Caso 39
Brazil
Caso 39
Mexico
Caso 39
Peru
Caso 39
Portugal
Case 39
Japan
Case 39
Sweden
Fall 39
Austria
Fall 39
Germany
Slucaj 39
Croatia
Slucaj 39
Serbia
Υπόθεση 39
Greece
Дело #39
Russia
39. Dosya
Turkey
Expediente 39
Spain
Le cas 39
France
Prípad císlo 39
Czech Republic
Przypadek 39
Poland
Védtelen gyermek
Hungary
Ypothesi 39
Greece
August 13, 2009
New Zealand
August 21, 2009
Germany
August 28, 2009
Spain
September 03, 2009
Russia
September 03, 2009
Ukraine
September 04, 2009
Kazakhstan
September 10, 2009
South Korea
October 08, 2009
United Arab Emirates
October 16, 2009
Indonesia
October 23, 2009
Lithuania
November 05, 2009
Australia
November 05, 2009
Kuwait
November 06, 2009
Turkey
November 25, 2009
Egypt
November 26, 2009
Singapore
November 27, 2009
Taiwan
December 03, 2009
Hong Kong
December 04, 2009
Mexico
December 04, 2009
Poland
January 14, 2010
Malaysia
January 14, 2010
Portugal
January 15, 2010
Romania
January 19, 2010
Italy
January 21, 2010
Thailand
February 03, 2010
Philippines
March 05, 2010
Ireland
March 05, 2010
UK
March 05, 2010
Venezuela
March 11, 2010
Germany
March 17, 2010
Belgium
March 18, 2010
Netherlands
April 08, 2010
Argentina
April 08, 2010
Peru
April 09, 2010
Brazil
April 09, 2010
Panama
July , 2010
Finland
July 06, 2010
France
July 07, 2010
Sweden
July 23, 2010
Japan
August 06, 2010
Hungary
October 01, 2010
Canada
October 01, 2010
USA
Some cases should never be opened.
They'll never stop. October 1
Social worker Emily Jenkins (Renée Zellweger) is assigned to investigate the family of ten year-old Lilith Sullivan (Jodelle Ferland), as her grades have declined and an emotional rift with her parents has emerged. Emily suspects that the parents have been mistreating Lilith, and proposes to her department to take the child away from her parents' custody. Emily's fears are confirmed when Lilith's parents try to kill her by roasting her in the oven at their home. Emily saves Lilith with the help of Detective Mike Barron (Ian McShane). Lilith is originally sent to a children's home, but she begs Emily to look after her instead. With the agreement of the board, Emily is assigned to take care of Lilith until a suitable foster family comes along. In the meantime, Lilith's parents, Edward and Margaret (Callum Keith Rennie and Kerry O'Malley), are placed in a mental institution.
Not too long after Lilith moves in, strange things begin to happen around Emily. Two weeks later, another of Emily's cases, a boy named Diego (Alexander Conti), suddenly murders his parents, and Barron informs Emily that somebody phoned Diego from her house the night before the crime. As she is suspected of involvement in the incident, Lilith undergoes a psychiatric evaluation by Emily's best friend, Douglas J. Ames (Bradley Cooper). During the session, however, Lilith turns the evaluation around, asking Douglas what his fears are and subtly threatening him. That night while studying he receives a strange phone call in his apartment, Douglas is panicked by the sight of a mass of hornets coming out of his body and kills himself in his bathroom by snapping his own neck.
Emily gradually becomes fearful of having Lilith in her home, so she heads to the mental asylum for answers from Lilith's parents. They tell her that Lilith is a demon who feeds on feelings, and that they tried to kill her in an attempt to save themselves. Lilith's father tells Emily that the only way to kill Lilith is to get her to sleep. Shortly after Emily leaves the asylum, both parents die in unusual circumstances. Lilith's mother is fatally burnt and her father is stabbed in the eye with a fork after attacking a fellow inmate through whom the voice of Lilith spoke. Barron initially thinks Emily should seek psychiatric help, but is later convinced when he receives a strange phone call in his home from Emily's cellphone, which is being used by Lilith. He arms himself at the police precinct to aid Emily in handling Lilith. However, he inadvertently shoots himself in the head with a shotgun when Lilith makes him imagine he is being attacked by dogs. After realizing all her most closest colleagues have been eliminated, this prompts Emily to serve Lilith tea spiked with sedative. While Lilith is asleep, Emily sets fire to her house, hoping to get rid of her. However, the girl escapes unharmed.
A police officer escorts Emily and Lilith to a temporary place to sleep. As Emily is following the police cars, she suddenly takes a different route and drives her car at a high speed, hoping to bring fear to Lilith. Instead, Lilith forces Emily to relive her childhood memory of her mother driving fast in a rainstorm. Emily fights through the memory, telling herself that it is not real. The image fades, and Emily asks Lilith if she is afraid. Lilith now appears afraid as she knows that Emily is no longer afraid. Emily then drives the car off a pier. As the car sinks, Emily struggles to lock Lilith (now in demon form) in the trunk by folding the rear seats against her. Emily then exits the car, but as she swims away, Lilith grabs her leg after punching a hole through the car's left tail light section. Emily struggles to break free until Lilith finally lets go as the car continues to sink. She climbs back ashore, relieved to be rid of her.
Christian Alvart
Director(s)
Ray Wright
Writer(s)
Lisa Bruce
co-producer
Steve Golin
producer
Alix Madigan
co-producer
Kevin Misher
producer
Scott Thaler
producer: additional photogtraphy (uncredited)
Producer(s)
Michl Britsch
Composer(s)
Emily Jenkins
Renée Zellweger
Lilith Sullivan
Jodelle Ferland
Det. Mike Barron
Ian McShane
Doug
Bradley Cooper
Edward Sullivan
Callum Keith Rennie
Wayne
Adrian Lester
Margaret Sullivan
Kerry O'Malley
Nancy
Cynthia Stevenson
Diego
Alexander Conti
Javier
Philip Cabrita
Javier's Wife
Vanesa Tomasino
Custody Judge
Mary Black
Plainclothes Cop
Domenico D'Ambrosio
Therapist
Benita Ha
Judge (as John Carroll)
J. Winston Carroll
Co-Worker
Michael Bean
Co-Worker
Lesley Ewen
Chief Psychiatrist
David Patrick Green
Bus Driver
Dee Jay Jackson
Young Emily
Taya Calicetto
Emily's Mother
Alisen Down
Inmate
Darryl Quon
Nurse
Suzanne Bastien
Nurse
Jane Braithwaite
Fire Marshall
Fulvio Cecere
Police Sergeant
Colin Lawrence
News Anchor
Dagmar Midcap
Coordinator
Fran Gebhard
Interviewer
Bill Mondy
Doctor
Andrew Airlie
Barron's Wife (as Sarah Jane Redmond)
Sarah-Jane Redmond
Demon Person
Charles Zuckermann
Mrs. Lynch
Yvonne Valdez
Priest
Paul Duchart
Businessperson
Daniel Bacon
Young Cop
Darren E. Scott
Detention Center Cop
Dalias Blake
Lead Guard
Phillip Mitchell
Ballroom Dancer
Uldouz Wallace
New Caseworker (uncredited)
Camille Atebe
A social worker fights to save a girl from her abusive parents, only to discover that the situation is more dangerous than she ever expected.
Director(s)
Writer(s)
co-producer
Steve Golin
producer
Alix Madigan
co-producer
Kevin Misher
producer
Scott Thaler
producer: additional photogtraphy (uncredited)
Producer(s)
Composer(s)
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