Coraline Page #4

Synopsis: While exploring her new home, a girl named Coraline (Dakota Fanning) discovers a secret door, behind which lies an alternate world that closely mirrors her own but, in many ways, is better. She rejoices in her discovery, until Other Mother (Teri Hatcher) and the rest of her parallel family try to keep her there forever. Coraline must use all her resources and bravery to make it back to her own family and life.
Production: Focus Features
  Nominated for 1 Oscar. Another 7 wins & 43 nominations.
 
IMDB:
7.7
Metacritic:
80
Rotten Tomatoes:
90%
PG
Year:
2009
100 min
$75,169,351
Website
8,114 Views


He holds up his hands in surrender, nodding with eyes

closed, forcing some laughs.

WYBIE (CONT’D)

Heh. Well, great to meet a Michigan

water witch.

He picks up his bike, wheels it around, then holds up his

gloved hands.

WYBIE (CONT'D)

But I’d wear gloves next time.

CORALINE:

(skeptical)

Why?

He points to her dowsing rod, nods.

WYBIE (CONT'D)

‘Cause that dowsing rod of yours? Uh,

it’s poison oak.

CORALINE:

Ehh!!

Coraline drops the stick as he zooms away and wipes her

hands on her clothes.

The cat merows at her, shaking his head with a pitying

look, then trots away after Wybie. She STICKS OUT HER

TONGUE at him.

She looks down at the COVERING to the well. Coraline

finds a PEBBLE and drops it through A SMALL KNOT-HOLE.

Ear at the knot-hole, she counts until there’s a watery

“plop” far below. FAT RAINDROPS start to fall around her.

ROTATE DISSOLVE TO:

INT. KITCHEN - NEXT MORNING

It’s POURING out. Coraline looks out a window at the DEADLOOKING

GARDEN, and places PACKETS OF SEEDS - pumpkins,

squash, snap dragons, bleeding hearts - on the sill.

She's developed a REDDISH RASH -poison oak - on one

hand.

The main floor kitchen, like most things in the Pink

Palace, is barely maintained, and looks worn and faded.

Coraline's MOTHER, MEL JONES, 40, bangs away at her

laptop on the table, MOVING BOXES stacked nearby. She's

plain-looking and tired and wears a NECK-BRACE.

CORALINE:

I almost fell down a well yesterday, Mom.

MEL:

(not listening)

Uh huh.

CORALINE:

I would have died.

MEL:

(continues typing)

That’s nice.

Coraline scratches the rash on her hand, changes subject.

CORALINE:

Hmmm. So can I go out? I think it’s

perfect weather for gardening.

MEL:

No, Coraline. Rain makes mud. Mud makes a

mess.

Coraline turns to her.

CORALINE:

But Mom, I want stuff growing when my

friends come to visit. Isn’t that why we

moved here?

MEL:

Something like that. But then we had the

accident.

CORALINE:

Wasn’t my fault you hit that truck.

MEL:

I never said it was.

CORALINE:

(mutters)

I can’t believe it -- you and Dad get

paid to write about plants and you hate

dirt.

Mel stops typing, loses her patience.

MEL:

Coraline, I don’t have time for you right

now. And you still have unpacking to do.

Lots of unpacking.

CORALINE:

That sounds exciting.

Mel remembers something.

Mel (CONT'D)

Oh - some kid left this on the front

porch.

Coraline walks over and is handed a NEWSPAPER-WRAPPED

PACKAGE. Attached note reads:

WYBIE (V.O.)

Hey Jonesy, look what I found in Gramma’s

trunk. Look familiar? Wybie.

She rips open the package and finds the BUTTON-EYED, BLUEHAIRED,

YELLOW RAINCOAT-WEARING DOLL from the head

credits -it’s a litte Coraline!

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Henry Selick

Henry Selick (born November 30, 1952) is an American stop motion director, producer and writer who is best known for directing The Nightmare Before Christmas, James and the Giant Peach and Coraline. He studied at the Program in Experimental Animation at California Institute of the Arts, under the guidance of Jules Engel. more…

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