The Short List of Things to Do

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Coraline

Coraline

A new girl in a spooky old house finds a seductive alternative to her drab domestic reality. Stop-motion-animation master Henry Selick (The Nightmare Before Christmas) turns Neil Gaiman's horror tale for kids into a carnival of odd shapes and colors as lively as it is creepy.

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