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Coraline

  • 20092009
  • PGPG
  • 1h 40m
IMDb RATING
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Keith David and Dakota Fanning in Coraline (2009)
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  • Animation
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An adventurous 11-year-old girl finds another world that is a strangely idealized version of her frustrating home, but it has sinister secrets.An adventurous 11-year-old girl finds another world that is a strangely idealized version of her frustrating home, but it has sinister secrets.An adventurous 11-year-old girl finds another world that is a strangely idealized version of her frustrating home, but it has sinister secrets.

IMDb RATING
7.7/10
220K
YOUR RATING
POPULARITY
1,196
136
  • Director
    • Henry Selick
  • Writers
    • Henry Selick(screenplay)
    • Neil Gaiman(book)
  • Stars
    • Dakota Fanning(voice)
    • Teri Hatcher(voice)
    • John Hodgman(voice)
Top credits
  • Director
    • Henry Selick
  • Writers
    • Henry Selick(screenplay)
    • Neil Gaiman(book)
  • Stars
    • Dakota Fanning(voice)
    • Teri Hatcher(voice)
    • John Hodgman(voice)
  • See production, box office & company info
    • 466User reviews
    • 330Critic reviews
    • 80Metascore
  • See more at IMDbPro
    • Nominated for 1 Oscar
      • 8 wins & 46 nominations total

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    Robert Bailey Jr. and Dakota Fanning in Coraline (2009)
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    Teri Hatcher, Dakota Fanning, and John Hodgman in Coraline (2009)
    Teri Hatcher in Coraline (2009)
    Dakota Fanning in Coraline (2009)
    Dakota Fanning in Coraline (2009)
    John Hodgman in Coraline (2009)
    Ian McShane in Coraline (2009)
    Henry Selick in Coraline (2009)
    Teri Hatcher in Coraline (2009)
    Dakota Fanning in Coraline (2009)
    Dakota Fanning and Ian McShane in Coraline (2009)

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    Dakota Fanning
    Dakota Fanning
    • Coraline Jonesas Coraline Jones
    • (voice)
    Teri Hatcher
    Teri Hatcher
    • Mel Jonesas Mel Jones
    • (voice)
    • …
    John Hodgman
    John Hodgman
    • Charlie Jonesas Charlie Jones
    • (voice)
    • …
    Jennifer Saunders
    Jennifer Saunders
    • Miss April Spinkas Miss April Spink
    • (voice)
    • …
    Dawn French
    Dawn French
    • Miss Miriam Forcibleas Miss Miriam Forcible
    • (voice)
    • …
    Keith David
    Keith David
    • The Catas The Cat
    • (voice)
    Robert Bailey Jr.
    Robert Bailey Jr.
    • Wyborne 'Wybie' Lovatas Wyborne 'Wybie' Lovat
    • (voice)
    Ian McShane
    Ian McShane
    • Mr. Sergei Alexander Bobinskyas Mr. Sergei Alexander Bobinsky
    • (voice)
    • …
    Aankha Neal
    • Sweet Ghost Girlas Sweet Ghost Girl
    • (voice)
    George Selick
    • Ghost Boyas Ghost Boy
    • (voice)
    Hannah Kaiser
    • Tall Ghost Girlas Tall Ghost Girl
    • (voice)
    Harry Selick
    • Photo Friendas Photo Friend
    • (voice)
    Marina Budovsky
    • Photo Friendas Photo Friend
    • (voice)
    Emerson Tenney
    Emerson Tenney
    • Magic Dragonflyas Magic Dragonfly
    • (voice)
    • (as Emerson Hatcher)
    Jerome Ranft
    • Moveras Mover
    • (voice)
    Christopher Murrie-Green
    • Toyas Toy
    • (voice)
    • (as Christopher Murrie)
    Jeremy Ryder
    • Toyas Toy
    • (voice)
    Carolyn Crawford
    • Wybie's Grandmotheras Wybie's Grandmother
    • (voice)
    • Director
      • Henry Selick
    • Writers
      • Henry Selick(screenplay)
      • Neil Gaiman(book)
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    Storyline

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    When Coraline moves to an old house, she feels bored and neglected by her parents. She finds a hidden door with a bricked up passage. During the night, she crosses the passage and finds a parallel world where everybody has buttons instead of eyes, with caring parents and all her dreams coming true. When the Other Mother invites Coraline to stay in her world forever, the girl refuses and finds that the alternate reality where she is trapped is only a trick to lure her. —Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
    • parallel worlds
    • stop motion
    • female protagonist
    • horror for children
    • button eyes
    • 227 more
    • Plot summary
    • Plot synopsis
    • Taglines
      • Be careful what you wish for.
    • Genres
      • Animation
      • Drama
      • Family
      • Fantasy
      • Thriller
    • Motion Picture Rating (MPAA)
      • Rated PG for thematic elements, scary images, some language and suggestive humor
    • Parents guide

    Did you know

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    • Trivia
      The character Wybie Lovat is not in Neil Gaiman's novel. He was created so Coraline would not have to talk to herself and so she would have a friend her own age.
    • Goofs
      The house's living room changes places several times throughout the film.
    • Quotes

      Coraline Jones: How can you walk away from something and then come towards it?

      Cat: Walk around the world.

      Coraline Jones: Small world.

    • Crazy credits
      Partway through the credits, behind the scenes footage of the mice swirling around the portal is shown, giving a look at the process of animating in front of the blue screen.
    • Connections
      Featured in Hewy's Animated Movie Reviews: Coraline (2009)
    • Soundtracks
      Sirens of the Sea
      Performed by Michele Mariana

      Written by Henry Selick

      Copyright (c) 2007 Henry Selick

    User reviews466

    Review
    Top review
    10/10
    What an artistic movie
    The Movie Coraline is an animated film well worth watching more than once. SPOILER ALERT The movie starts out introducing Coraline, voice actor Dakota Fanning, who is new to the Pink palace and is soon introduced to the black cat, voice actor Keith David, and Wybie Lovat, voice actor Robert Bailey Jr., who both are stalking Coraline. We then meet her mother Mel Jones, voice actor Teri Hatcher, and her father Charlie Jones, voice actor John Hodgman. Corallines' new life is shown to be less than wonderful as she meets her other tenants and is unable to realize her dream of gardening. Soon she discovers another world, which is much better in every way tailored specifically to Coraline based on information gathered by a spying Coraline doll carried by Coraline unknowingly. The other mother quickly turns villainess, as she is unable to get Coraline to do what she wants. With the help of the black cat, Coraline is able to escape the other mother and return home saving other children's souls who were less fortunate than she was. As well as her parents who were trapped to lure Coraline back to the other world.

    The movie end with Coraline now happy with her real world and realizing she had everything she needed there all along. The theme of wanting more than what you already have and not seeing how good you have it is common among films today. However, the creative imagination of Coraline takes a spin and makes a very unbelievable situation seem plausible. The motif of the movie is seen often as the theme is drawing on what is real and what is too good to be true. When the sound and lighting are as controlled as in Coraline the Director can really impress upon the viewer a believable world that you can see yourself involved. The songs used make the world's first the regular world and then the other world seem like a place of dreary and boring plainness and then a world of pure imagination yet also terror. When the other world is dissolving the technique of fading the edges into white is pure genius.

    The angle also helps you see through a subjective viewpoint in the majority of the scenes, even though it is not truly the camera angle but how the slides are drawn to show certain angles. The theme is so crucial in Coraline because few people would think the way Coraline is acting at the start of the movie might even be bad but as the movie progresses you see how she is flawed in her original outlook and judgments of her parents and new neighbors.
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    FAQ7

    • Is "Coraline" based on a book?
    • The tagline reads, "From the director of The Nightmare Before Christmas". Did Tim Burton direct this film?
    • Who is Coraline?

    Details

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    • Release date
      • February 6, 2009 (United States)
    • Country of origin
      • United States
    • Official sites
      • Official site (France)
      • Official site (Japan)
    • Languages
      • English
      • Russian
    • Also known as
      • Coraline y la puerta secreta
    • Filming locations
      • Portland, Oregon, USA
    • Production companies
      • Focus Features
      • Laika Entertainment
      • Pandemonium
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    Box office

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    • Budget
      • $60,000,000 (estimated)
    • Gross US & Canada
      • $75,286,229
    • Opening weekend US & Canada
      • $16,849,640
      • Feb 8, 2009
    • Gross worldwide
      • $124,596,837
    See detailed box office info on IMDbPro

    Technical specs

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    • Runtime
      1 hour 40 minutes
    • Color
      • Color
      • Black and White
    • Sound mix
      • DTS
      • Dolby Digital
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.85 : 1

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