great movie

Rating: 10/10 (15 December 2018)

This movie shows reality and an alternate reality. When Coraline Jones voiced by Dakota Fanning, moves, her parents seem preoccupied and she is left to explore her new house. Since she is so bored with everything she wanders off and meets Wybie, who leaves a doll that looks exactly like her with her mother. and finds a brick door and enters it.. On the other side of the door, she finds her "other mother" voiced by Teri Hatcher, who looks just like her real mother. This alternate reality is more exciting and the "other parents" seem to be attentive to her and she likes the attention. She keeps going back and forth between both realities and begins to notice changes in the other mother.
The lighting fluctuates between drab and illuminating depending on which reality she has entered. The music is also the same way. It is dark at times and then it becomes happy. This is due to the dark overtone of the movie. It reminds me of the movie A Nightmare Before Christmas, which is also directed by Henry Selick. He is a great writer/director.