Coraline and the stray cat take the key to the old well, planning to toss it down there, but before they can, the Beldam's severed hand grabs Coraline and attempts to drag her back into the Other World. That night, the ghosts of the Beldam's victims thank Coraline for helping them pass on to the afterlife, but warn her that the Beldam hasn't been truly defeated yet, as the Key to the Other World is still at the Pink Palace. Unbeknownst to Coraline, one of the Beldam's hands is able to sneak through the door. After grabbing the snow globe, Coraline makes it back home and locks the door to the Other World, just as her parents walk in with no memory of what happened. Coraline tricks the Beldam into unlocking the door and, upon finding her parents trapped in a snow globe, throws the stray cat at the Beldam's face, blinding her. Coraline is able to find the three souls, but the Beldam refuses to accept defeat and reveals her true form, an arachnoid-like monster, as the Other World begins to collapse. Coraline challenges the Beldam to a game, which the Beldam agrees to: If Coraline can find the souls of the three dead children within a time limit, the Beldam will release Coraline, her parents and all the previous victims, but if time runs out, Coraline must remain in the Other World and let the Beldam replace her eyes with buttons. The stray cat fears that the Beldam is too powerful for Coraline, so he suggests that Coraline outsmart the Beldam instead.
The Other Wybie helps Coraline escape back to the real world, but is caught and killed by the Beldam, who then hangs his clothes from a flagpole to taunt Coraline with.īack in the real world, Coraline finds that her parents have been kidnapped by the Beldam in order to force her to go back to the Other World. When the children become happy enough that they want to stay forever, the Beldam replaces their eyes with buttons and devours their souls. The ghosts explain that the Other Mother is actually an evil witch called "The Beldam", who lures unhappy children into the Other World by sending ragdolls to spy on them and transforms the Other World into an ideal world of happiness. Coraline stumbles into the ghosts of three children that disappeared long ago. However, it isn't long before she starts becoming suspicious about the Other Mother like the cat said after "Other Wybie" and "Other Father" subtly try to warn her.Ĭoraline wants to go back to the real world, but the Other Mother refuses to let her go. Coraline finds herself greatly enjoying the Other World, becoming obsessed with going there as often as possible and even contemplating staying there forever. He tries to warn Coraline about the Other Mother, but Coraline ignores him. The stray cat finds Coraline in the Other World and reveals that he can talk and has some degree of control over the pocket dimension. When she does, she finds herself in a parallel world that looks just like her normal world, except all the inhabitants have buttons for eyes, just like the ragdoll.Ĭoraline meets the "Other Mother", who explains that they're in the "Other World", a dimension where unfortunate children can live a happier version of their previous lives. Coraline finds the key that opens the door and sneaks into it later that night. The doll quickly leads Coraline towards a strange locked door in the apartment. Wybie brings her a button-eyed ragdoll that looks suspiciously like her. That same day, Coraline finds an old well that was sealed off years ago.Ĭoraline's life is rather miserable, as her parents are very neglectful and even rude towards her and she has no friends left. Wybie warns her that the last three children who lived at the Pink Palace apartments mysteriously disappeared, but she shrugs him off. Coraline soon meets a boy named Wyborne "Wybie" Lovat and finds a stray cat. For some reason, the landlady of the Pink Palace apartments is hesitant to let couples with children live there, but Coraline's family moves in nonetheless. It also was nominated for an Academy Award for "Best Animated Feature" and the Golden Globe Award for "Best Animated Feature".Ĭoraline Jones is an 11-year-old girl whose family has just moved to Ashland, Oregon. It won a few Annie Awards for "Best Music in an Animated Feature Production", "Best Character Design in an Animated Feature Production" and "Best Production Design in an Animated Feature Production".
The film was released in United States theaters on Februby Focus Features after a world premiere at the Portland International Film Festival. This film was animated by the team of Laika as its first feature film. You'll never look at buttons the same way again.Ĭoraline is a 2009 American stop-motion animated dark fantasy-horror film written and directed by Henry Selick, based on the graphic novel of the same name by Neil Gaiman.
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