
Be careful what you wish for.
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.
- 7.9
- 2009
- Released
- 1h 40m

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)
Aankha Neal
Sweet Ghost Girl (voice)
George Selick
Ghost Boy (voice)
Hannah Kaiser
Tall Ghost Girl (voice)
Harry Selick
Photo Friend (voice)
Marina Budovsky
Photo Friend (voice)
Emerson Tenney
Magic Dragonfly (voice)
Jeremy Ryder
Toy (voice)
Carolyn Crawford
Wybie's Grandmother (voice)
John Linnell
Other Father (singing voice) (uncredited)


















Released
en
$60,000,000.00
$185,860,104.00
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- #dreams
- #based on novel or book
- #villain
- #eye
- #stuffed animal
- #stop motion
- #parallel world
- #button
- #new home
- #secret door
- #female villain
- #aftercreditsstinger
- #duringcreditsstinger
- #horror for children
- #talking cat
- #somber
- #parallel universe
- #callous
Reviews

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 Coral

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











