
Coraline
Be careful what you wish for.
2009 • 100 min • Animation · Family · Fantasy
Synopsis
Wandering her rambling old house in her boring new town, 11-year-old Coraline discovers a hidden door to a strangely idealized version of her life. In order to stay in the fantasy, she must make a frighteningly real sacrifice.
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Top billed cast
Director: Henry Selick • Crew: Henry Selick

Dakota Fanning
Coraline Jones (voice)

Teri Hatcher
Mel Jones / Other Mother (voice)

Jennifer Saunders
Miss April Spink / Other Spink (voice)

Dawn French
Miss Miriam Forcible / Other Forcible (voice)

Keith David
The Cat (voice)

John Hodgman
Charlie Jones / Other Father (voice)

Robert Bailey Jr.
Wyborne 'Wybie' Lovat (voice)

Ian McShane
Mr. Sergei Alexander Bobinsky / Other Bobinsky (voice)
- A
Aankha Neal
Sweet Ghost Girl (voice)
- G
George Selick
Ghost Boy (voice)
Trailers & clips
Behind the Scenes: Animating Other Father
Animator’s Eye: The Inspiration Behind Mr. Bobinsky
Sketch to Screen: Animating Coraline’s Garden Party
Coraline Ambience: Sounds from the Other World
15th Anniversary Encore
Henry Selick on Coraline and his love of stop-motion animation | BFI in Conversation
Coraline actor Teri Hatcher and director Henry Selick | BFI Q&A
"Unwinding the Web" Live Action Scene
Critic reviews
freshTop criticsFantastic watch, will watch again, and do recommend. I really wish more movies would follow this simple and great movie structure. Instead of a typical 3-act structure (not that it isn't technically there), the story is much closer to that of a video game. You have a standard introductory act, but the rest of the movie is split into video game-esque "levels" that develop and unlock as Coraline makes new dis...
freshTop criticsQuite dark, but entertaining and very well done. One of the few american animated movies I liked.
freshTop criticsNeil Gaiman is so contemporarily vital, both in literature and cinema, because he more than anyone else (with the possible exception of Terry Gilliam) notes that children and adults alike are fascinated with what lies outside our observable and tangible realms of existence. He realized the reasons storytelling have been significantly important since the dawn of mankind, and devised, as the Brothers Grimm did, that...
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Details
- TMDB audience
- 7.9/10 (9,227)
- Age rating
- PG
- Status
- Released
- Budget
- $60,000,000
- Box office
- $185,860,104
- IMDb
- tt0327597
- Official site
- www.laika.com
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