
Wandering her rambling old house in her boring new town, 11-year-old Coraline discovers a hidden door to a strangely idealized version of her life. In order to stay in the fantasy, she must make a frighteningly real sacrifice.
Henry Selick's stop-motion adaptation of the Neil Gaiman novella turns a children's tale into something genuinely unnerving — beautiful, button-eyed, and quietly terrifying. Critics rank it among the great modern animated films, equal parts gothic fairy tale and visual feast.