While most animated movies for younger audiences deliver positive messages, Coraline takes an eerie approach to teaching kids to appreciate what they already have. Based on Neil Gaiman’s novella and directed by Henry Selick, the film follows a girl who moves in with her parents to a new home. Exploring the house out of boredom and loneliness, she finds a small door to an idealized world where she gets everything she wants and her parents finally pay attention to her. Then she discovers this Other World’s harsh secrets and has to find a way out.

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