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- Limited Release: December 19, 2008
- Wide Release: February 6, 2009
- Studio: LAIKA Entertainment
- Distributor: Focus Features, Universal Pictures
- Director: Henry Selick
- Screenwriters: Henry Selick, Neil Gaiman
- Budget: $35,000,000 est.
- Book is also being adapted into a stage musical
- Selick previously directed stop-motion films The Nightmare Before Christmas and James and the Giant Peach
- Cast members French and Saunders previously appeared in Selick's Giant Peach
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Coraline is an animated feature film based on the children's fantasy novel by Neil Gaiman. The film is directed by Henry Selick and features the voices of Dakota Fanning, John Hodgman and Teri Hatcher. It is the first stop-motion animation film to be shot [stereoscopically with a dual digital camera rig for digital 3-D exhibition.
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Plot Summary
Coraline tells the story of a young girl who unlocks a mysterious door in her new home and enters into an adventure in a parallel reality. On the surface, this other world eerily mimics and improves her own life, with more attentive, loving parents and a home filled with impossible wonders. Ultimately, Coraline realizes this alternate reality is more sinister than it seems, and searches for a way to escape and return home.Cast (Voice)
- Dakota Fanning: Coraline
- Teri Hatcher: Coraline's Mother
- John Hodgman: Coraline's Father
- Keith David: The Cat
- Ian McShane: Mr. Bobinski
- Jennifer Saunders: Miss Forcible
- Dawn French: Miss Spink
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Coraline Film Questions
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