[Movie Script]Coraline



                                  CORALINE




Written by


Henry Selick


Based on the novel by


Neil Gaiman






          HEAD CREDIT SEQUENCE MYSTERIOUS SEWING ROOM - NIGHT,





          A HAUNTING LULLABY plays against a black, star-pricked

sky when something appears in the distance. A BUTTON-EYED

DOLL floats towards CAMERA, through the open window of a

small sewing room where it lands in a pair of WAITING

HANDS, hands that are made of SEWING NEEDLES.




          The doll - which resembles a YOUNG BLACK GIRL in old-

fashioned clothes, hair fixed with ribbons and braids -

is placed on a sewing table. An elaborate sewing kit is

opened, and, in flickering green light, the NEEDLE-HANDS

go to work. The doll's old clothes are cut away; button-

eyes torn off; hair pulled out. The doll's stuffing is

removed and then the empty cloth body is pulled inside

out, turning from NUT BROWN to PALE PINK.







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