Coraline (film)

Coraline is a 2009 American stopmotion animated 3D dark fantasy thriller film based on Neil Gaimans 2002 novel of the same name. It was produced by Laika and distributed by Focus Features. The film depicts an adventurous girl finding an idealized parallel world behind a secret door in her new home, unaware that the alternate world contains a dark and sinister secret. Written and directed by Henry Selick, the film was made with Gaimans approval and cooperation.

Hands made of sewing needles remake a doll to resemble an 11yearold Coraline Jones. A little later, Coraline and her family move from Pontiac, Michigan to the Pink Palace Apartments, in Ashland, Oregon, which is rather dilapidated and a hundred and fifty years old. It is also occupied by retired actresses Ms. Spink and Forcible, and eccentric Russian acrobat Mr. Bobinsky, who claims to be training a mouse circus. Coralines parents work for a garden catalog and are often too busy to pay attention to her.Coraline decides to explore their new home, meeting Wyborn Wybie Lovat, the grandson of the apartments landlady, Mrs. Lovat. While exploring, she finds a small bricksealed door. That night, Coraline follows a mouse through the door, where she discovers the bricks have been replaced by a long corridor. Coraline goes through it and finds herself in the Other World, which is a copy of her world and is inhabited by her Other Parents, who look similar to her real parents, but have buttons for eyes. In the Other World, her parents are much more attentive and everything is more interesting and magical. Coraline falls asleep in the Other World, and awakens back home. ........

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