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Other Father: [praying] We give our thanks and ask to bless our mother's golden... Chicken breasts! April Spink: Oh, Caroline. Caroline, Caroline, Caroline. You are in terrible danger. Miriam Forcible: It's good news. There's a tall... handsome beast in your future. Cat: You probably think this world is a dream come true… but you're wrong. Dragonflies: What's wrong, Coraline? Don't you wanna play? Octopus Toy: Yeah! I wanna hug your face! Giraffe Toy: Get a grip, soldier! Friends in the Photo: Hey! Where's your buttons, Loper? You wanna stay, don't ya? Ghost Boy: Bless you, miss. You found me! But there's two eyes still lost. Tall Ghost Girl: Hurry on, girl. Her web is unwinding. Sweet Ghost Girl: Be clever, Miss. Even if you win, she'll never let you go.

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Wybie: Well, great to meet a Michigan water witch, but I'd wear gloves next time. Coraline: Why? Wybie: 'Cause that dowsing rod of yours, uh.. it's poison oak.

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Coraline: I almost fell down a well yesterday, Mom. Mel: [unconcerned] Uh-huh... Coraline: I would've died. Mel: That's nice. Coraline: Hm. So, can I go out? I think it's perfect weather for gardening. Mel: No, Coraline. Rain makes mud. Mud makes a mess. Coraline: But, Mom, I want stuff growing when my friends come to visit. Isn't that why we moved here? Mel: Something like that. But then... we had the accident. Coraline: It wasn't my fault you hit that truck! Mel: I never said it was. Coraline: I can't believe it. You and Dad get paid to write about plants, and you hate dirt. Mel: Coraline, I don't have time for you right now, and you still have unpacking to do. Lots of unpacking. Coraline: [sarcastically] That sounds exciting. Mel: Oh, some kid left this on the front porch. Wybie's voice: Hey Jonesy, look what I found in Gramma’s trunk. Look familiar? Wybie. Coraline: Huh... a little me? That’s weird Mel: What’s his name, anyway? Coraline: Wybie. And I’m way too old for dolls.

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Coraline: Hey Dad, how’s the writing going?... Dad? Charlie: Hello, Coraline... and... Coraline doll? Coraline: Do you know where the garden tools are? Charlie: It’s pouring out there, isn’t it? Coraline: Humph, it’s just raining. Charlie: What’d the boss say? Coraline: [mocking loudly] <big><big><big>“DON’T EVEN THINK ABOUT GOING OUT, CORALINE JONES!!!”</big></big></big> Charlie: Then you won’t need the tools. Uhhh, you know, this house is a hundred and fifty years old. Coraline: So? Charlie: So explore it! Go out and ... count all the doors and windows and write that down. List everything blue! Just let me work. Coraline: [as Mel opens the small door] Bricks?! I don't get it. Mel: [sighs] They must have closed this off when they divided up the house. Coraline: You're kidding. And why is the door so small? Mel: We made a deal! ZIP IT! [storms off] Coraline: You didn't lock it.

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Coraline: [groans in disgust as she slides her dinner plate away] Why don't you ever cook, Mom? Mel: Coraline, we've been through this before. Your dad cooks, I clean, and you stay out of the way. I swear I'll go food shopping as soon as we finish the catalog. [slides Coraline's dinner plate back to her] Try some of the chard. You need a vegetable. Coraline: It looks more like slime to me. Charlie: Well, it's slime or bedtime, fuss pot. Now what's it gonna be? Coraline: [to her doll-doppelganger] Think they're trying to poison me?

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Coraline: It was incredibly real, Mom. Only you weren't really you. You were my other mother. Mel: Buttons for eyes, huh? Coraline, you only dreamed you ate all that chicken. Take your multivitamin, at least. Coraline: You were in the dream too, Dad. You had wild-looking pajamas and orange monkey slippers. Charlie: [chuckling] Orange? My monkey slippers are blue. Psst! Can you give me some of that magic mud you were talking about? Because I have a terrible case of writer's rash, on my… Mel: [clears throat; sternly] If the real Charlie Jones wants his pages edited, he better wrap them up ASAP. [Charlie leaves; closes the fridge] Coraline, why don't you go visit downstairs? I bet those "actresses" would love to hear your dream. Coraline: Miss Spink and Forcible? But you said they're dingbats!

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Mr. Bobinsky: Hey, Caroline! [speaking Russian] Wait! The mice asked me to give you message. Coraline: The... jumping mice? Mr. Bobinsky: They are saying... "Do not go through little door." Do you know such a thing? Coraline: The one behind the wallpaper..? But it's all... bricked up. Mr. Bobinsky: Ah, so sorry. is nothing. Sometimes mice are little mixed up. They even get your name wrong, you know? They call you "Coraline" instead of "Caroline." Not "Caroline" at all! Maybe I work them too hard.

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April Spink: Miriam, really, you're holding it wrong. See? Danger. Coraline: What do you see? April Spink: I see a very peculiar hand. Miriam Forcible: I see a giraffe. April Spink: "Giraffes" don't just fall from the sky, Miriam. Coraline: Well... what should I do? April Spink: Never wear green in your dressing room. Miriam Forcible: Acquire a very "tall" stepladder. April Spink: And be very, very careful... Now, was there something you came to tell us? Coraline: No..I guess not. Thanks for the tea, though.

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Wybie: You know... I've never been inside the Pink Palace. Coraline: You're kidding. Wybie: Grandma'd kill me! She thinks it's...dangerous or something. Coraline: Dangerous? Wybie: Well, she had a twin sister. Coraline: So? Wybie: When they were kids, Grandma's sister disappeared. She said she was s-stolen. Coraline: Stolen? Well, what do you think? Wybie: I don't know. Maybe she just... ran away.

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Other Mother: Your father and I will clean up while you and your friend head upstairs. Coraline: [confused] My friend? [Other Mother opens the door, revealing Other Wybie; annoyed] Great. Another Wybie. Hello, Why-Were-You-Born. [Other Wybie waves at her, not even saying a single word] Hello! Other Mother: I thought you'd like him more if he spoke a little less. So I fixed him. Coraline: So he can't talk at all? Other Mother: Nope. Coraline: Hmm... I like it! Other Mother: Now run along, you two, and have fun.

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Mel: Put them back. Coraline: But, Mom, the whole school's gonna wear boring gray clothes. No one will have these. Mel: [sternly] Put them back. Coraline: My other mother would get them. Mel: Maybe she should buy all your clothes.

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Other Forcible: What a piece of work is man! How noble in reason! Other Spink: How infinite in faculty! In form and moving, how express and admirable! Other Forcible: In action, like an angel! Other Spink: In apprehension, how like a god! Other Forcible: [pulls Coraline out of her seat as she screams] The beauty of the world! Other Spink: The paragon of animals!

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Other Mother: They say even the proudest spirit can be broken with love. [A bug-shaped chair scoops up Coraline and brings her to her] Of course, chocolate never hurts. [takes a candy box from the servant bug, opens it, revealing nine Cocoa Beetles] Like one? They're Cocoa Beetles from Zanzibar. [takes a beetle out of the box and bites the head off] Coraline: I want to be with my real mom and dad. I want you to let me go! Other Mother: [throws her Cocoa Beetle away] Is that any way to talk to your mother? Coraline: You aren't my mother. Other Mother: Apologize at [stares deadly at her; sharply] once, Coraline! Coraline: [stares back at her; bravely] NO! Other Mother: I'll give you to the count of three. [Coraline continues to glare at her defiantly] One... [starts growing taller] Two... [grows taller and more menacing] <big><big>THREEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!</big></big> [grabs Coraline by the nose] Coraline: Ow! What are you doing?! Ow, that hurts! Other Mother: [drags Coraline down the hallway

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Coraline: [pulls the blanket, revealing three ghost children sitting on the bed] Who are you? Ghost Boy: Don't remember our names. But I 'member my true mommy. Coraline: Why are you all here? Ghost Children: The beldam. Sweet Ghost Girl: She spied on our lives through the little dolls' eyes. Ghost Boy: And saw that we weren't happy. Tall Ghost Girl: So she lured us away with treasures. Ghost Boy: And treats. Sweet Ghost Girl: And games to play. Ghost Boy: Gave all that we asked. Sweet Ghost Girl: Yet we still wanted more. Tall Ghost Girl: So we let her sew the buttons. Ghost Boy: She said that she loved us. Tall Ghost Girl: But she locked us here. Ghost Children: And ate up our lives. Coraline: Well, she can't keep in the dark forever. Not if she wants to win my life. Beating her is my only chance. Sweet Ghost Girl: Perhaps, if you do win your escape, you could find our eyes. Coraline: Has she taken those, too? Sweet Ghost Girl: Yes, miss. And hidden them. Ghost Boy: Find our eyes, mis

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Coraline: Where are you hiding, you little monster? Wybie: You and grandma been talking? Coraline: [searching around] The doll's her spy. It's how she watches you, finds out what's wrong with your life. Wybie: The doll is my grandma's spy? Coraline: No. The other mother. She's got this whole world where everything's better. The food, the garden, the… the neighbors. But it's all a trap. Wybie: Yeah. I think I heard someone calling me, Jonesy. Coraline: Don't believe me? You can ask the cat! Wybie: The cat. I'll just tell Grandma that you couldn't find the doll. [Coraline angrily throws her shoe at him, hitting him in the back of his head] Ow! Coraline: You're not LISTENING TO ME! Wybie: That's 'cause you're crazy! [runs quickly down the stairs to the front door, screaming, as Coraline chases after him, screaming in anger and frustration] Coraline: You creep! Wybie: Crazy! Coraline: Crazy?! YOU'RE THE JERKWAD THAT GAVE ME THE DOLL!

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April Spink: [handing Coraline the seeing stone] There you go, sweetie. Coraline: What's it for? April Spink: Well, it might help. They're good for bad things sometimes. Miriam Forcible: No. They're good for lost things. April Spink: It's bad things, Miriam. Miriam Forcible: Lost things, April. April Spink: Bad. Miriam Forcible: Lost. April Spink: [whispers] Bad things. Miriam Forcible: Lost. April Spink: Bad. Miriam Forcible: Lost. April Spink: Bad. Miriam Forcible: Lost. April Spink: Bad. Miriam Forcible: Lost!

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Ghost Boy: Bless you, miss. You found me! But there's two eyes still lost. Coraline: Don't worry. I'm getting the hang of it.

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Coraline: The pearl. [takes it but grabs her as she screams when a twisted monster of Spink and Forcible comes to life] Other Forcible Monster: Thief! Give it back! Give it back! Thief! Other Spink Monster: Give it back! Other Forcible Monster: Thief! Give it back! Thief! Thief! Give it back! Thief! Other Forcible: Give it back! Thief! Other Spink: Give it back! Thief! Other Taffy Monsters: Thief! Stop! Stop! Thief! Other Taffy Forcible: [Last words] Thief! Stop! Tall Ghost Girl: Hurry on, girl. Her web is unwinding.

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Other Bobinsky: [Pops behind Coraline] Hello, galoobooshka. Coraline: I'm Coraline. Other Bobinsky: Is this what your looking for? [Rolls out the third eye out of his sleeve] Coraline: Uh-huh. Other Bobinsky: You think winning game is good thing? You'll just go home and be bored and neglected, same as always. Stay here with us. We will listen to you and laugh with you. If you stay here, you can have whatever you want. Always! Coraline: You don't get it, do you? Other Bobinsky: I don't understand. Coraline: Of course you don't understand. You're just a copy she made of the real Mr. B. Other Bobinsky: Not even that anymore. [dissolves into a swarm of rats]

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Cat: I think I mentioned that I don't like rats at the best of times. Coraline: I think you might have said something like that. Cat: It looked like you need this one, however. Coraline: Thank you. [picks it up on the last ghost eye, which causes the other house and the rest of the world to turn to stone] I'm heading inside. I still have to find my parents. [The full button moon was shining, and the other world started to freeze and fall apart, leading to destruction.] Come on! quickly!

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Other Mother: So...you're back. And you brought vermin with you. Coraline: No I brought a friend. Other Mother: You know I love you. Coraline: Well, you have a very funny way of showing it. Other Mother: So where are they? The ghost eyes? Coraline: Hold on. We aren't finished yet. Are we? Other Mother: No, I suppose not. After all, you still need to find your old parents, don't you? Too bad you won't have this. [throws the seeing stone into the fireplace and it melts] Sweet Ghost Girl: Be clever, miss. Even if you win, she'll never let you go! Coraline: I already know where you've hidden them. Other Mother: Well, produce them. Coraline: They're behind that door. Other Mother: Oh, they are, are they?

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Coraline: [after the Other Mother coughs up the key] Go on. Open it. They'll be there, alright. Other Mother: [unlocks the door] You're wrong, Coraline. They aren't there. [opens the door] Now, you're going to stay here forever. Coraline: No... I'm... NOT! [she throws the cat at the Other Mother's face, causing the cat to attack her]

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Sweet Ghost Girl: It's a fine, fine thing you did for us, miss. Coraline: Well, I'm glad it's finally over. Sweet Ghost Girl: It is over and done with for us. Coraline: What about me? Tall Ghost Girl: You're in terrible danger, girl! Coraline: But how?! I locked the door! Sweet Ghost Girl: It's the key, miss. There's only one, and the beldam will find it. Ghost Boy: 'Tain't all bad, miss. Thou art alive. Thou art still living.

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Wybie: I'm really sorry I didn't believe you about all this evil stuff, Coraline. Coraline: Why did you change your mind? Wybie: Well, Grandma showed me this picture after I called you crazy. [shows Coraline an old photo] It's her and her sister, before she disappeared. Coraline: The Sweet Ghost Girl.

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Coraline: [walking up to Spink and Forcible, holding a tray of pink lemonade] Thanks for helping me, Miss Spink, Miss Forcible. Miriam Forcible: Oh, look, April. Pink ladies! Coraline: Actually, it's just lemonade. How's Angus doing? April Spink: Oh, much better, dear. But he can't duck his wings forever.

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Grandma Lovat: Wyborne, I know where I'm going. I grew up here. Coraline: Welcome, Miss Lovat! Grandma Lovat: Oh! Hello. Coraline: [last lines] I'm Coraline Jones. I've got so much to tell you.