Coraline

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.

Cast

Dakota Fanning

as Coraline Jones (voice)

Teri Hatcher

as Mel Jones / Other Mother (voice)

Jennifer Saunders

as Miss April Spink / Other Spink (voice)

Dawn French

as Miss Miriam Forcible / Other Forcible (voice)

Keith David

as The Cat (voice)

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)

Aankha Neal

as Sweet Ghost Girl (voice)

George Selick

as Ghost Boy (voice)

Reviews

talisencrw

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 s...

ZeBlah

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

Kamurai

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...

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