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Coraline
Coraline is an only child. She has just moved to a creaky old apartment in a dilapidated pink guesthouse with her parents. Mum and Dad are too absorbed in their own work to pay her any attention. There is nothing decent to eat. The neighbours are deeply weird. The only person she has for company is Wybie, the grandson of the owner, who hints at dark secrets about Coraline’s new home. Wybie is irritating and he talks too much. So, imagine Coraline’s delight when she discovers a little door hidden in the living room – by day, the opening is bricked up, but at night it opens to reveal a passage to an alternative world, exactly like the one she has left behind but much, much more fun. Mum and Dad are there too, but they are inventive and playful and creative, lavishing her with entertainment and affection, turning the house and garden into a wondrous theme park. The food is fantastic. Her other parents have buttons for eyes, but she’s prepared to overlook that for the moment. Needless to say, however, all is not what it seems. Her other mother, just as we might have suspected, has plans for Coraline, which begin with the ritual of replacing her eyes with those dreaded buttons. Coraline soon learns the terrifying secrets of this alternative life, and ends up fighting to save her real world. Henry Selick – the animator behind The Nightmare Before Christmas and James and the Giant Peach – has excelled his already high standards in animation and transformed a short novel by Neil Gaiman into a dazzlingly imaginative movie experience, technically brilliant, visually staggering and quite magical. There’s plenty for the whole family to enjoy and we hope you’ll join us for a bit of a festive family frightener. But be warned – it is definitely a bit scary: if you were on a sofa, some of the family would end up behind it.
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