Coraline (2009) movie poster

Coraline (2009)

"Be careful what you wish for."
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👍 91%Google users liked it ⓘ
Critics Score
🎬 86%
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Runtime
1h 40m
Rated
PG
Country
United States of America
Language
English
TMDB Rating
7.9/10 (8,822 votes)
Rotten Tomatoes
91%
Metacritic
80

Cast

Dakota Fanning as Coraline Jones (voice) · 72% avg
Teri Hatcher as Mel Jones / Other Mother (voice) · 74% avg
Jennifer Saunders as Miss April Spink / Other Spink (voice) · 82% avg
Dawn French as Miss Miriam Forcible / Other Forcible (voice) · 75% avg
Keith David as The Cat (voice) · 70% avg
John Hodgman as Charlie Jones / Other Father (voice)
Robert Bailey Jr. as Wyborne 'Wybie' Lovat (voice)
Ian McShane as Mr. Sergei Alexander Bobinsky / Other Bobinsky (voice) · 72% avg

Is Coraline good?

Yes. 91% of real audiences liked it, by Google's archived audience score. Critics agree, scoring it 86%.

Where it ranks on ThumbScore

Rank in its genre
#38 / 661 · Animation
Rank in its year
#6 / 230 · 2009

By audience score, among films with 500 or more votes.

Overview

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. Wikipedia ↗

About the Film

Coraline is a 2009 American stop-motion animated dark fantasy horror film directed by Henry Selick, based on Neil Gaiman's 2002 novella. Dakota Fanning voices Coraline Jones, a bored, neglected young girl who discovers a hidden door in her new home that leads to an idealized alternate version of her life — the Other World — where her Other Mother and Other Father are attentive, entertaining, and cook wonderful meals, and everything is designed to delight her. The catch: everyone in the Other World has buttons sewn where their eyes should be, and the Other Mother wants Coraline to sew buttons into her own eyes to stay forever.

Henry Selick's stop-motion animation was extraordinarily detailed and expressive, creating an Other World that was initially enchanting before gradually revealing its sinister nature through subtle visual cues — colors becoming too saturated, smiles lasting too long, gifts becoming more desperate. The Other Mother's true form — a spider-like creature made of sewing needles — was one of the most terrifying designs in animated film. Coraline was the first stop-motion animated film produced entirely in stereoscopic 3D, and the depth and texture of the handcrafted sets made the 3D presentation particularly effective.

Bruno Coulais's score, featuring a children's choir singing in an invented language, was perfectly unsettling. Coraline earned $124 million worldwide on a $60 million budget.

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In Coraline (2009) The crew spent 800 hours painting 250,000 pieces of popcorn—pink on the outside, red on the kernel—to stand in as blossoms for the nearly 70 trees.
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The full set used for the movie Coraline. Was an exhibit at a tour I took.
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