Based on Neil Gaiman's best-selling novella, Coraline tells the story of a girl who moves into a new house with her inattentive parents and discovers a door to an alternate universe where she finds a life very much like her own, only better. In this world, her Other parents are doting, interesting, and everything Coraline had wished her actual parents were, with one exception: their eyes have been replaced by black buttons. As her Other Mother begins to pressure her to stay in this wonderful alternate universe (and to trade her eyes in for buttons), Coraline finds it harder and harder to return to real life, and her once-happy universe starts to feel like a prison. "A remarkable feat of imagination, a magical tale with a genuinely sinister edge." (LA Times) more at coraline.com 35mm
2009, color, 1 hour 40 minutes, USA