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Coraline

Year
2009
Studio
Focus Features

About this movie

A girl finds a door to an alternate home that seems better than her own, until it doesn't.

Plot summary

Eleven-year-old Coraline Jones and her parents, Charlie and Mel, move from Pontiac, Michigan, into the Pink Palace Apartments, an old Victorian house in Ashland, Oregon. While searching for an old well, she meets a black cat and the landlady's grandson, Wyborn "Wybie" Lovat, who gives her a rag doll that eerily resembles her. Since her parents are busy with work, Coraline entertains herself by exploring the house, discovering a small door with a brick wall behind it in the living room.

That night, she opens the door and finds that the brick wall has been replaced by a tunnel, which leads her to an "Other World", where button-eyed doppelgängers of her parents lavish her with delicious food and their attention. Upon waking in the morning, Coraline finds herself back in the real world, where Wybie recounts that his great-aunt disappeared when she was a child. Coraline then meets her neighbors: Sergei Alexander Bobinsky, an eccentric man who owns a mouse circus, and retired burlesque actresses April Spink and Miriam Forcible, who warn her of impending danger in her future regarding the Other World.

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Holiday
Halloween
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Studio
Focus Features

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