HEAD CREDITSEQUENCEMYSTERIOUSSEWINGROOM - NIGHT,
A HAUNTINGLULLABYplaysagainst a black, star-pricked
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sky when somethingappears in the distance. A BUTTON-EYED
DOLL floatstowards 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 - whichresembles a YOUNGBLACKGIRL in old-
fashioned clothes, hair fixed with ribbons and braids -
is placed on a sewing table. An elaboratesewing kit is
opened, and, in flickeringgreen 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 emptycloth body is pulled inside
out, turning from NUTBROWN to PALE PINK.
Sawdust is poured in the NEW DOLL's mouth; facial
features added; blue yarn hair punched in; and then a
fresh pair of shinyblackbutton eyes is selected from a
button drawer.
The transformed doll, in a LITTLEYELLOW RAINCOAT, its
new button eyes affixed, is released out the window and
BACK INTOTHE NIGHT.
LAST HEADCREDIT APPEARS, THEN FADES.
EXT PINK PALACE, ASHLANDOREGON - DAY
WIDE ANGLE on a rambling old Queen Anne-style house with
tacked-on outside stairs. It's late winter, the sky a
damp, grey sponge. A SIGN in the foregroundreads 'Pink
Palace, Apartment for Rent'.
MR. BOBINSKY - a seven-foot-tall blue-skinned man -
performs calisthenics on the rooftop, counting in
Russian.
MR. BOBINSKY
Dras, dva, tri, chetyri.
Dras, dva, tri, chetyri.
Dras, dva, tri ...
A BEEPINGSOUNDbegins and he pauses. A tiredMOVING VAN
backs into frame and up the muddy driveway. A VWBEETLE -
suitcases roped to its top - recklesslypasses the truck
and disappearsaround the side of the house. Bobinsky
shakes his fist angrilyafter the car and shouts:
MR. BOBINSKY (CONT’D)
Mer-sa-vich!
He marches away indignantly. One of the MOVERS, unseen in
the truck, speaks to his companion.
MOVER 2 (O.C.)
We're here. Time to muscle up.
ANGLE ONmoving truck's REARDOORS as they're 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.
They haul out the LOADINGRAMPtowards CAMERA.
NEW ANGLE, EXTERIORSTAIRS to BASEMENT FLAT. APRIL SPINK,
a rotundlittle old English lady with bad legs, surveys
the MOVERS as they pass by her chair-lift with boxes and
furniture. The old gal can't wait to tell her flat mate
below about the young, strapping men.
MOVER 2 (CONT’D)
(efforts)
Got it? Almost there, just a few more.
Come on, now, LIFT.
ANGLE ONFRONT PORCH. The job finished, Mover 2 heads
down the frontstepswhileMover 1 waits for a signature
from the unseen-but-for-his-hands new tenant. Papers
signed, a tip of a single, grubbydollar bill is placed
in the outstretched hand of the disappointed mover, and
the door is shut.
EXT HOUSE, REARVIEW - SAME
ANGLE from BACK YARD. Hidingbehind shrubs, WESHARE the
POV of a MYSTERIOUS SPY. With a CLICK, a close-up lens is
rotated into place to better see the moversquietly pack
into the truck and drive away. A MANGYBLACKCAT walks
right in front of the lens and looks at us with concern.
OFF-SCREEN, a door bangs open. WEFOLLOW the cat as it
races up a tree and out a branchtowards the BACK PORCH
to investigate.
CORALINE JONES, 11, steps onto the porch in a YELLOW
RAINCOAT with a shoulder bag. WE - SPY’S POV - CLICK to a
CLOSE-UP to find this new tenant has BLUEHAIR and a
skeptical face.
Coraline Script Ss
- Coraline Script PDF at CineFile
- Coraline Script at IMSDb
- Coraline Script PDF - FOURTH DRAFT. 4/26/2006. at Script City ($)
- Coraline Script PDF at Script Fly ($)
- Coraline Transcript at Script-O-Rama
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Coraline Musical Script
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