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Coraline (also known as Coraline in 3D) is a 2009 animated stop-motion horror fantasy film based on Neil Gaiman’s novel of the same name. Laika was produced and distributed by Focus Features. Directed by Henry Selick, who was released in theaters on February 6, 2009. Is rated PG for thematic elements, scary images, some language and suggestive humor.

Synopsis

Coraline Jones moves into a new apartment with her loving but distracted parents. While exploring her new surroundings, Coraline comes across a small door, though the entrance beyond it is bricked up. That night, Coraline discovers a dark corridor beyond the door, which leads her to another apartment parallel to her own. There she encounters beings who claim to be her “Other” parents, who resemble her real parents with the exception of black buttons for eyes. The inhabitants of this Other World prove to be much more interesting and fantastical than those from her own world, particularly her Other Mother, who does everything she can to keep Coraline entertained.

Coraline begins visiting the Other World frequently to escape the doldrums of her life. The Other Mother offers to let Coraline stay in the Other World forever if she is willing to sew buttons over her eyes. Coraline decides she would rather return to her own world, angering the Other Mother, who traps Coraline in a small room. There Coraline encounters the souls of three other children from different time periods whom the Other Mother had seduced and grown tired of. Escaping the Other Mother’s captivity, Coraline returns to her own world, only to find that her real parents had been kidnapped by the Other Mother. Coraline resolves to return to the Other World to free them and the souls of the lost children.

Armed with her wits and an Eye Stone provided by her neighbors, Coraline challenges the Other Mother to a game: if Coraline can find the children’s souls and her parents within a preset time limit, they will be set free; if she fails, she will stay in the Other World forever. One by one, Coraline outwits and destroys the inhabitants of the Other World sent against her by the Other Mother, and retrieves the children’s souls, as well as her parents. Knowing the Other Mother would go back on her promise, Coraline tricks her into opening the door to her own world and makes her escape, closing the door on the Other Mother and severing her hand. Back in her own world, Coraline finds her parents safe and sound, without any memory of the incident.

That night, the freed souls of the children explain to Coraline that the Other Mother will try to make her way into her world and find the key to the door to reclaim her. Coraline takes the key to a deep well on the premises, but is attacked by the Other Mother’s severed hand. After a brief struggle, and with a little help from her new friend and annoying neighbor Wybie Lovat, the hand is destroyed and dropped down the well with the key, ridding the world of the Other Mother’s influence forever.

Directed by: Henry Selick

Produced by:

Mary Sandell

Claire Jennings

Executive Producer:

Bill Mechanic

Henry Selick

Michael Zoumas

Line Producer: Harry Linden

Written by:

Neil Gaiman (novel)

Henry Selick

Starring

Dakota Fanning

Teri Hatcher

John Hodgman

Ian McShane

Keith David

Jennifer Saunders

Dawn French

Music by:

Bruno Coulais

They Might Be Giants

Cinematography: Pete Kozachik

Editing by: Christopher Murrie

Distributed by Focus Features

Release date(s) February 6, 2009 [1]

Running time 100 min

Country: United States

Language: English

Official website : http://www.coraline.com

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