Dakota Fanning

Teri Hatcher

Jennifer Saunders

Dawn French

Keith David

John Hodgman

Robert Bailey Jr.

Ian McShane

Aankha Neal

George Selick

Hannah Kaiser

Harry Selick

Marina Budovsky

Emerson Tenney

Jerome Ranft

Christopher Murrie

Jeremy Ryder

Carolyn Crawford

Yona Prost

John Linnell

Henry Selick

Bruno Coulais

Mike Cachuela

Chris Butler

Rich Zim

Misha Klein

Andy Schuhler

Michael Zoumas

Kevin Glick

Dawn Swiderski

Julianna Cox

Teresa Drilling

Tom Gasek

Jeff Riley

Gabe Sprenger

Alex Heineman

Mary Sandell

Amy Adamy

Brad Schiff

Ronald Sanders

Dan Krall

Malcolm Lamont

Anthony Scott

Anthony Elworthy

Brian Menz

Gregory Smith

Rob Bekuhrs

Billy Cabey

Travis Knight

Martin Meunier

Phil Brotherton

Michelle Gorski

Ken Lidster

Claire Jennings

Payton Curtis

Justin Kohn

Bartek Prusiewicz

Harry Linden

Chris Tichborne

John Allan Armstrong

Jennifer Downs

Robert Ducey

Rachel Larsen

Eric Leighton

Guionne Leroy

David J. Rowe

Graham Annable

Vera Brosgol

Lee Bo Henry

Shane Prigmore

Andrew Salter

Trey Thomas

Pete Kozachik

Tom Proost

Kent Burton

Ian Whitlock

Chris Appelhans

Philip Beglan

Jan-Erik Maas

Jeffery Mulcaster

Chris Tootell

Bill Mechanic

Phil Dale

Sarah de Gaudemar

Brian Demoskoff

Suzanne Twining

Tim Yates

Kim Blanchette

Shannon Tindle

Tom Knott

Jeannine Berger

Eric Wachtman

Adam Fisher

Anne Adams

Stephanie Choi

Yin-Yee 'Grace' Chung

Michaele Smith

Marianne De Benedetto

Andy Pask

Jose Solis

Scott Foster

Scarlet Chamberlin

Bradley Buchanan

Gloria Cheng

Skaila Kanga

Jonathan Williams

Dielle Alexandre

Leonard Lipton

Clay Duncan

Deborah Lurie

Margaret Meyer

Chris Steele

Nicholas Bucknall

Anna Noakes

Loren Hillman-Morgan

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friendship

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based on novel or book

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button

new home

secret door

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somber

parallel universe

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coraline

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gloomy

coraline y la puerta

Neil 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 fairy tales and children's stories had to be haunting and entertaining to be both memorable and timeless. This is a great film depicting the growing sense as a child approaches adolescence that their parents and their world aren't exactly as they seem, and that through their trials and tribulations (the 'rites of passage', if you will) they'll reach the 'happy medium' they need to in order to find true happiness in their lifetimes.

I definitely hope that all of Gaiman's books and graphic novels are made into movies (I most anticipate the 'Miracleman' graphic novels--both those by him and Alan Moore). Ones so well-written would truly be 'comic book movies' worth watching for me.

ZeBlah

Quite dark, but entertaining and very well done. One of the few american animated movies I liked.

Kamurai

Fantastic 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 discoveries and completes different sections of the "map" / house.

There is a lot of messaging here as well, mostly concerning relationships between children and parents and how to navigate those in regard to real life events, but everything is "do not tell" levels of subtle so it's not in your face at all.

The Beldam itself is a magnificent creation of a "thing that bumps in the night" style of monster.  While there is a lot left unexplained, there is plenty that is exampled about the Beldam and her world.

The movie also reminds me a lot of "The Wizard of Oz" in a few different ways so its good that there are family friendly movies of this quality that make vague callbacks to classic movies.

Coraline Ambience: Sounds from the Other World

15th Anniversary Encore

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Coraline( 2009)

Be careful what you wish for.

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Written by talisencrw on Tue May 03 2016

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