Coraline (2009)

Recommended

USA

Animated Feature Film

Director: Henry Selick

Writers: Henry Selick, Neil Gaiman

Cinematographer: Pete Kozachik

Composer: Bruno Coulais

Cast: Dakota Fanning, Teri Hatcher, Jennifer Saunders, Dawn French, Keith David, John Hodgman, Robert Bailey Jr., Ian McShane

In Selick’s transporting, visually arresting, and surprisingly scary adaptation of Neil Gaiman’s book, a young girl with blue hair, who has just moved into a new country home with her writer parents, who she believes to not pay her enough attention, finds a small door which leads her into a magical other world containing idealised versions of her parents and neighbours (only with buttons for eyes), which she soon learns is too good to be true. Iain.Stott