Coraline Page #6

She turns on the faucet to wash her hands, only to get

soaked with rusty water from the shower head.

CORALINE (CONT’D)

Ahh!!

She shakes out her hair.

HALLWAY NEAR STAIRS

Coraline pounds down the stairs, spots the carpet bump

again in the hallway and jumps on it. A closet door

opens, a light on inside, and she goes to investigate.

WATER HEATER CLOSET

ANGLE OVER water heater on Coraline. She jots down one

rusty water heater in her pad. As she leaves, she flicks

off the light switch, not noticing a note taped beside it

that says:
Do not turn off!

INT. STUDY - SAME

Lights flicker and then Charlie’s computer dies. He

hollers.

CHARLIE:

No, no, no, no, no; GAAAA--!

INT. HALLWAY - SAME

CHARLIE (O.S.)

--AAAAAAA!

Coraline reacts with guilty alarm, runs back to the

closet and --

INT. CLOSET - SAME

-- spots the Do not turn off note. She flips the light

switch back on and gets out of there.

INT. LIVING ROOM - SAME

The room is faded and cold with bare windows looking out

on rain and gray. The floor is strewn with moving boxes,

a few pieces of furniture, Charlie's old Nordic Track. A

few garden tools lean against one wall; a cardboard

mattress box leans against a corner wall.

Coraline enters, counting windows and doors to note in

her pad. She sets the doll on a low table beside an open

moving box and smiles.

The box is filled with her mom’s collection of

SNOWGLOBES. She takes out her favorite - the BEAR

FOUNTAIN AT THE DETROIT ZOO - and shakes it. She studies

the globe and sighs with homesickness. She sets it

carefully on the FIREPLACE MANTEL, then unwraps the rest

of the snowglobes and places them beside it.

Over the mantel hangs a PAINTING of a CRYING BOY IN BLUE -

a scoop of ice cream melting on his shirt, his hand

holding an EMPTY CONE. Coraline takes up pad and pen and

adds to her list, muttering aloud.

CORALINE:

One boring blue boy in a painfully boring

painting ... four incredibly boring

windows ... and no... more... doors...

She turns to grab the doll off the table by the snow

globe box. It’s gone.

CORALINE (CONT'D)

All right, little me, where are you

hiding?

Scanning the room, she spots the doll LOOKING OUT FROM

BEHIND THE MATTRESS BOX leaned against the corner wall.

Perplexed, she walks over and kneels down to grab the

doll when she notices SOMETHING ON THE WALL behind the

box.

She shoves the box aside, and discovers the outline of a

SMALL DOOR that’s been wallpapered over.

CORALINE (CONT’D)

Huh?

Intensely curious, she calls to the kitchen.

CORALINE (CONT'D)

Hey Mom...

INT. KITCHEN - CONTINUOUS

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