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Case 39 is a 2009 American horror film directed by Christian Alvart and starring Renée Zellweger, Bradley Cooper, and Ian McShane. The film was shot in Vancouver in late 2006 and was released theatrically in the UK, European and Latin American countries on August 13, 2009. The film was initially scheduled for America release in August 2008, but was delayed twice before its final release date on October 1, 2010.

Social worker Emily Jenkins (Renée Zellweger) is assigned to investigate the family of ten year-old Lily 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 Lily. Emily's fears are confirmed when Lily's parents try to kill her by roasting her in the oven at their home. Emily saves Lily with the help of Detective Mike Barron (Ian McShane). Lily 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 Lily until a suitable foster family comes along. In the meantime, Lily's parents, Edward and Margaret (Callum Keith Rennie and Kerry O'Malley), are placed in a mental institution.

Not too long after Lily 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, Lily undergoes a psychiatric evaluation by Emily's best friend, Douglas J. Ames (Bradley Cooper). During the session, however, Lily 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 Lily, so she heads to the mental asylum for answers from Lily's parents. They tell her that Lily is a demon who feeds on emotion, and that they tried to kill her in an attempt to save themselves. Lily's father tells Emily that the only way to kill Lilith is to get her to sleep. Shortly after Emily leaves the asylum, Lily'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 Lily spoke.

Barron initially thinks Emily should seek psychiatric help, but is later convinced when he receives a strange phone call in his home from Lily on Emily's cellphone. He arms himself at the police precinct to aid Emily in handling Lily. However, he inadvertently shoots himself in the head with a shotgun when Lily makes him imagine he is being attacked by dogs.

After realizing that her closest colleagues have been eliminated, and that the rest of her cases will no doubt be next, Emily serves Lily tea spiked with sedative. While Lily 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 Lily 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 Lily. Instead, Lily 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 mockingly asks Lilith if she is afraid. Lily appears scared by the fact that Emily was able to keep her wits through one of her illusions. Emily then drives the car off a pier. As the car sinks, Emily struggles to lock Lily (now in demon form) in the trunk by folding the rear seats against her. Emily is then able to open her door and attempts to swim to the surface. However, the demon's huge fist punches a hole through the car's left tail light and grabs Emily's leg. Emily struggles and eventually breaks free as a trapped Lilith sinks to the bottom. Emily climbs atop the pier and attempts to recover from the ordeal.