The spirits reveal that the Other Mother, whom they call the 'Beldam,' used the same doll Coraline had (each time disguised as the child in question,) to spy on them, taking advantage of their unhappiness and luring them into the Other World. There, Coraline meets the ghosts of the Other Mother's previous child victims, including Wybie's grandmother's sister. The Other Mother transforms into a menacing version of herself and imprisons Coraline in the hallway mirror. Horrified, Coraline goes to sleep, but when she wakes up, she's still in the Other World. Coraline attends, along with Other Wybie.Īfterward, the Other Mother invites Coraline to stay in the Other World forever, on the condition she have buttons sewn over her eyes. Once there, she finds the Other Mother is not present, but finds a note inviting her downstairs to the Other Spink and Forcible's vaudeville/cabaret show.

While her parents are out of the house, Coraline finds the key and unlocks the door, going to the Other World in the daytime for the first time. Each time she visits the Other World, Coraline goes to sleep there, and wakes up in the real world, increasingly displeased she didn't wake up in the Other World, and thinking her experiences of the previous night have all been a dream.Ĭoraline discovers her mother has locked the small door in the living room and hidden the key, saying she found rodent dung near the door, and to make Coraline feel safer. Coraline also encounters the Black Cat from the real world, who is able to speak in the Other World and likes to play 'games' with the Other Mother, who hates cats. Undeterred, Coraline visits the Other World the following night, entertained by the Other Bobinsky, who conducts a mouse circus for her and the Other Wybie, who has been rendered mute by the Other Mother to please Coraline. Wybie then tells her about his grandmother's twin sister who disappeared in the house as a child. After dinner, the Other Mother puts mud on her rash she goes to sleep and awakens in the real world the next morning, finding her palm has healed. Coraline meets her Other Mother and Other Father, button-eyed doppelgängers of her parents that appear more attentive and caring. That night, a mouse guides Coraline through the door, a portal to a seemingly more colorful and cheerful version of her real home. Later, while she's exploring the house, the doll lures Coraline to a small door in the living room that is bricked up and can only be unlocked by a button-shaped key. Wybie gives Coraline a button-eyed rag doll he discovered in the trunk of his grandmother's car that eerily resembles her. Bobinsky, who is supposedly training a circus of mice, and retired burlesque actresses Misses Spink and Forcible. During their conversation, Coraline is unimpressed with Wybie, and he informs her that her dowsing rod is poison oak, which gives her a rash on her palm. While using a dowsing rod she plucked from a bush in the garden, attempting to find a well nearby, she meets the landlady's grandson, Wyborne 'Wybie' Lovat, and the feral Black Cat who follows him around.

As her parents struggle to complete their gardening catalog, Coraline is often left alone. Coraline won Annie Awards for Best Music in an Animated Feature Production, Best Character Design in an Animated Feature Production and Best Production Design in an Animated Feature Production, and received nominations for an Academy Award for Best Animated Feature and a Golden Globe Award for Best Animated Feature Film.Įleven-year-old Coraline Jones and her parents, Mel and Charlie, move into an old mansion that has been divided up and is now known as the Pink Palace Apartments.

The film made $16.85 million during opening weekend, ranking third at the box office, and by the end of its run had grossed over $124 million worldwide, making it the third highest-grossing stop-motion film of all time after Wallace and Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit and Chicken Run. The film was released in United States theaters on Februby Focus Features after a world premiere at the Portland International Film Festival, and received critical acclaim. The film depicts an adventurous girl named Coraline finding an idealized parallel world behind a secret door in her new home, unaware that the alternative world contains a dark and sinister secret. Produced by Laika as its first feature film, Coraline stars the voices of Dakota Fanning, Teri Hatcher, Jennifer Saunders, Dawn French, Keith David, John Hodgman, Robert Bailey Jr., and Ian McShane. Coraline is a 2009 American stop-motion animated dark fantasy horror film directed and written for the screen by Henry Selick based on the 2002 novella of the same name by Neil Gaiman.

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