Coraline 🎥 2009 Movie Info

Plot Summary

Eleven-year-old Coraline Jones and her parents, Charlie and Mel, move from Pontiac, Michigan, into the Pink Palace Apartments, an old Victorian house in Ashland, Oregon. While searching for an old well, she meets a black cat and the landlady’s grandson Wyborn “Wybie” Lovat, who gives her a rag doll that eerily resembles her. Since her parents are busy with work, Coraline entertains herself by exploring the house, discovering a small door with a brick wall behind it in the living room.

That night, she opens the door and finds that the brick wall has been replaced by a tunnel, which leads her to an “Other World”, where button-eyed doppelgängers of her parents lavish her with delicious food and their attention. Upon waking in the morning, Coraline finds herself back in the real world, where Wybie recounts that his great-aunt disappeared when she was a child. Coraline then meets her neighbors: Sergei Alexander Bobinsky, an eccentric man who owns a mouse circus, and retired burlesque actresses April Spink and Miriam Forcible, who warn her of impending danger in her future regarding the Other World.

Coraline returns to the Other World that night, where she meets Wybie’s mute doppelgänger. When she returns yet again, the cat, who can travel between the worlds and is capable of speech, arrives and warns her about the Other World. The Other Mother offers for Coraline to stay in the Other World forever, on the condition of having buttons sewn onto her eyes. Horrified, Coraline desperately tries to return home, but she remains in the Other World. When Coraline tries to escape through the door, the Other Mother imprisons her in a dark room behind a mirror. There, three ghost children, one of whom Coraline recognizes as Wybie’s great-aunt, tell Coraline that the Other Mother is an evil entity called the “Beldam”.

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