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- Young HeroesSave the DayParents and ChildrenChild in DangerParallel WorldDangerEscapadesImaginary more...
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- AdventureAnimationFantasyFamily
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- Contemporary21st Century
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- OregonEstate
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- Family OutingKids
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Coraline, 2009
English
USA
Profile of Coraline
The mood of Coraline is stylized, exciting, and offbeat. The plot centers around a parallel world, a child in danger, and saving the day. It is an adventure, animation, and fantasy movie. Stylistically, Coraline is surreal. In approach, it is fantastical and serious. It takes place, at least partly, on an estate. Coraline is set in Oregon. It happens in contemporary times. Visually, it involves stop motion effects and is 3D. Coraline is based on a book. The movie is known for being critically acclaimed. It is especially suggested for kids and a family outing.
Summary of Coraline
As covetous children are often warned: "Be careful what you wish for." It’s this very cautionary wisdom that sets the stage for Henry Selick’s CORALINE, an eerily eye-popping stop-motion animation tale of fractured dreams and families made whole. As the films opens, Coraline Jones (voiced by Dakota Fanning) and her parents (Teri Hatcher, John Hodgman) have moved into the Pink Palace, a once-vibrant boarding house that’s turned drab and dilapidated. As her parents work feverishly on a new gardening catalog, the bored and belligerent Coraline is admonished to explore her new world’s possibilities. Along the way she meets her fellow tenants, including two aging English showgirls and a mouse-training Russian acrobat, as well as an outcast neighborhood boy named Wybie. But it is a mysterious hidden door that most piques Coraline’s interest--a gateway to a parallel world where her "other" parents and neighbors live only to see Coraline well fed and endlessly entertained. All is not cakes and carnivals for Coraline, though, and the black buttons that have replaced the eyes of these otherworldly imitations hint at darker intentions. When these intentions are revealed, Cora and a friendly magical cat use their wits and willpower to defeat Coraline’s wicked "other mother" and restore balance in the real world. Based on Neil Gaiman’s beloved children’s novel, director Selick (THE NIGHTMARE BEFORE CHRISTMAS) uses the stop-motion technique to bring CORALINE to life with amazing visual and emotional depth. The result is a frightfully magical adventure that will give the whole family plenty to shriek, cheer, and talk about.
Details
| Language: | English |
| Country: | USA |
| Release date: | 5 February 2009 |
| Runtime: | 96 min |
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as Coraline Jones
as Mother / Other Mother
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Users Reviews
- 04.August.2010
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- by: Dan Cassavaugh
- Dan Cassavaugh rated this movie
0/10
- 09.February.2010
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- by: Stephen
- Stephen rated this movie
10/10Must See
