Coraline 2009  PG, 100 min.
Genre: Animation / Family / Fantasy
Director: Henry Selick
Cast: Dakota Fanning, Teri Hatcher, Keith David, John Hodgman, Ian McShane, Dawn French, Jennifer Saunders, Robert Bailey Jr., Aankha Neal, George Selick, Hannah Kaiser, Jerome Ranft, Emerson Hatcher, Marina Budovsky, Harry Selick
In this animated 3-D adventure, Coraline Jones (voice of Dakota Fanning) is a new girl in town, has no friends her age, and her parents (voices of Teri Hatcher and John Hodgman) are busy with their own lives. Coraline explores her new home and finds a secret door through which she crawls and enters an "Other" world filled with magic. She meets her "Other Mother" (also the voice of Teri Hatcher) and is enchanted by the attention she gives her. But, when Coraline discovers the dangers in her "Other" world, she must use her resourcefulness and even bravery to find her way back to her real world and save her real family.
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James and the Giant Peach 1996 PG, 80 min.
Genre: Animation / Family / Adventure / Fantasy / Musical
Director: Henry Selick
Cast: Paul Terry, Simon Callow, Richard Dreyfuss, Susan Sarandon, Miriam Margolyes, Joanna Lumley, Pete Postlethwaite, Mike Starr, David Thewlis, Jane Leeves, Steven Culp, Mario Yedidia
This Disney film begins with a gigantic, orange peach floating to New York with a young orphan (Paul Terry) and his oversize insect friends on board. Blending live action with computer animation and stop-motion puppetry, this movie–based on Roald Dahl's children's fantasy book–is a delight.
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Monkeybone 2001  PG-13, 90 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Henry Selick
Cast: Brendan Fraser, Bridget Fonda, Chris Kattan, John Turturro, Giancarlo Esposito, Rose McGowan, Dave Foley, Megan Mullally, Lisa Zane, Whoopi Goldberg
Cartoonist Stu Miley (Brendan Fraser), hospitalized in a coma, finds himself in his cartoon world: Downtown. He is trapped but determined to fight his way back to real life and his true love, Julie (Bridget Fonda).
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 The Nightmare Before Christmas 1993  PG, 75 min.
Genre: Action / Sci-Fi / Drama / Thriller
aka: Tim Burton's Nightmare Before Christmas
Director: Henry Selick
Cast: Danny Elfman, Chris Sarandon, Catherine O'Hara, William Hickey, Glenn Shadix, Paul Reubens, Ken Page, Edward Ivory, Susan McBride, Debi Durst, Greg Proops, Kerry Katz, Randy Crenshaw, Sherwood Ball, Carmen Twillie
This is a delightful Tim Burton film that uses stop-action and replacement animation. Halloweentown's hero, Jack Skellington (voice of Chris Sarandon, singing voice of Danny Elfman), takes a walk in the woods and enters a tree that is the doorway to Christmastown. Jack is overwhelmed with the good will he finds and now wants to take over Christmas by kidnapping Santa (voice of Edward Ivory) and do Christmas as only Halloweentown can. They capture Santa, but boogeyman Oogie Boogie (voice of Ken Page) re-captures Santa along with Jack's girlfriend Sally (voice of Catherine O'Hara), which leads to an inevitable confrontation. By story's end, Jack is riding in the sky in a coffin-like sled pulled by skeletal reindeer ready to deliver presents to the world's children.
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| 1. Coraline (2009)
2. James and the Giant Peach (1996)
3. Monkeybone (2001)
4. The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993)
aka: Tim Burton's Nightmare Before Christmas
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