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Case 39
2009
· Movie
· 109 min
D
MEANRANK
54/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #4837
- IMDb #4155
- Google retired #2116
- Rotten Tomatoes #4715
- Metacritic #4680
- Letterboxd #4817
+9 more
- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #5047
- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #4559
- Metacritic Critics #4918
- Metacritic Audience #3377
- Criticker #3378
- Douban #1839
- Kinopoisk #3653
- AlloCiné #2937
- Trakt #3770
Every rating
22–84
out of 100
Split
Lowest is Rotten Tomatoes critics on 22, highest is Google on 84. Critics average 24, everyone else 60.
See the films the platforms disagree about most →A compassionate social worker fights to save a frightened 10-year-old girl from her deeply abusive parents. After placing the child in her own care, she believes the girl is safe. She soon discovers that the girl is not a victim, but something ancient and sinister, and that the parents were not abusive, but trying to protect themselves and the world from her.
Details
- Director
- Christian Alvart
- Writer
- Ray Wright
- Released
- 13 August 2009
- Country
- Canada, United States
- Language
- English
- Runtime
- 109 min
- Rated
- R
- Budget
- $27.0M
- Box office
- $29.0M
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