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CORALINE JONES, 11, steps onto the porch in a YELLOW RAINCOAT with a shoulder bag.

She rejoices in her discovery, until Other Mother (Teri Hatcher) and the rest of her parallel family try to keep her there forever.

Coraline must use all her resources and bravery to make it back to her own family and life.

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 dolls old clothes are cut away; button- eyes torn off; hair pulled out.

The dolls stuffing is removed and then the empty cloth body is pulled inside out, turning from NUT BROWN to PALE PINK.

Sawdust is poured in the NEW DOLLs mouth; facial features added; blue yarn hair punched in; and then a fresh pair of shiny black button eyes is selected from a button drawer.

The transformed doll, in a LITTLE YELLOW RAINCOAT, its new button eyes affixed, is released out the window and BACK INTO THE NIGHT.

EXT PINK PALACE, ASHLAND OREGON - DAY WIDE ANGLE on a rambling old Queen Anne-style house with tacked-on outside stairs.

A SIGN in the foreground reads Pink Palace, Apartment for Rent.

MR. BOBINSKY - a seven-foot-tall blue-skinned man - performs calisthenics on the rooftop, counting in Russian.

A tired MOVING VAN backs into frame and up the muddy driveway.

A VW BEETLE - suitcases roped to its top - recklessly passes the truck and disappears around the side of the house.

Bobinsky shakes his fist angrily after the car and shouts: MR.

BOBINSKY (CONTD) Mer-sa-vich He marches away indignantly.

One of the MOVERS, unseen in the truck, speaks to his companion.

MOVER 2 (O.C.) Were here.

Time to muscle up.

ANGLE ON moving trucks REAR DOORS as theyre wrenched open by two men - MOVER 1, tall and bear-shaped, and MOVER 2, built like a brick top - to reveal a lot of BOXES and BEAT-UP FURNITURE.

APRIL SPINK, a rotund little old English lady with bad legs, surveys the MOVERS as they pass by her chair-lift with boxes and furniture.

The old gal cant wait to tell her flat mate below about the young, strapping men.

MOVER 2 (CONTD) (efforts) Got it Almost there, just a few more.

The job finished, Mover 2 heads down the front steps while Mover 1 waits for a signature from the unseen-but-for-his-hands new tenant.

Papers signed, a tip of a single, grubby dollar bill is placed in the outstretched hand of the disappointed mover, and the door is shut.

With a CLICK, a close-up lens is rotated into place to better see the movers quietly pack into the truck and drive away.

A MANGY BLACK CAT walks right in front of the lens and looks at us with concern.

WE FOLLOW the cat as it races up a tree and out a branch towards the BACK PORCH to investigate.

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