Coraline
Short description
Coraline Jones, eleven years old, has just moved with her parents into an apartment in an old house, and her new life is lonely: her mother and father are busy with work, and the town offers little to fill her days. Exploring the building, she finds a door that opens onto a passage leading to another version of her home, where an Other Mother and Other Father shower her with attention and everything seems brighter and more inviting. The catch is the buttons where those parents' eyes should be, and the Other Mother's wish to keep Coraline with her permanently. With help from a talking cat and the neighbours, Coraline must find the resolve to escape and recover what the Other Mother has taken.
Henry Selick directed and wrote the screenplay, his fourth feature after The Nightmare Before Christmas, James and the Giant Peach and Monkeybone. Dakota Fanning voices Coraline, with Teri Hatcher as both of her mothers, Jennifer Saunders and Dawn French as the retired performers Spink and Forcible, Keith David as the Cat and John Hodgman as Coraline's father. The production, from Laika Entertainment and Pandemonium, brought together a credited cast of 21 and a crew of 254.
Made for about 60 million dollars, the film returned roughly 125 million worldwide, a solid result for a stop-motion release. On IMDb it holds 7.8/10 from some 298,000 votes, and on TMDB 7.9/10 from around 9,454 votes, while a critics' rating of 8/10 across 275 reviews places critical opinion in much the same range as audience opinion.
What's left behind the scenes
- 450 people worked on the creation of this film, including animators, designers, and technicians.
- When Coraline first enters her bedroom in the 'Other World', the eyes of her friends in the photograph are normal. Later, the eyes become buttons, like everyone else's in this world.
- In a theater scene in the "Other World," one of the elderly actresses portrays Venus against a backdrop grotesquely copied from Sandro Botticelli's famous painting "The Birth of Venus."
- In the film, Coraline's father is wearing Monkeybone slippers. "Monkeybone" is a film directed by Henry Selick.
- The film is based on the children’s story “Coraline” (2002) by Neil Gaiman.
- It is the longest stop-motion animated film ever made. It is also the first stop-motion animated film created in 3D.
- Filming took place in an indoor space of approximately 13,000 square meters.
- The profile on the dollar given as a tip belongs to the director.
- The animated background in the scene where Coraline meets the freed ghost children closely resembles the night sky in Vincent van Gogh's painting "The Starry Night."
- All objects and characters in Coraline were 3D printed. Three 3D printers worked non-stop for over eighteen months.
- Mr. Bobinsky wears a medal for his work in the aftermath of the Chernobyl disaster.
- The snow was made from super glue and baking soda.
- A total of 28 Coraline dolls were made, the largest of which reaches 25 cm in height.
- In the living room of the Jones family's apartment in the "Other World," three oval portraits with black silhouettes of children are visible on one wall above a dresser with a vase – the ghosts of whom Coraline encountered.
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