Who helped Coraline get the last ghost child souls from the rats?

It's the black cat: he killed the rat and got the marble for Coraline! Unfortunately, the last little girl, whose soul was just rescued, tells Coraline that the other mother doesn't plan to let Coraline go, ever. But Coraline has the three souls now, and she goes to get her parents.
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Where does Coraline find the last soul?

In both the book and the film, the Stone allows Coraline to find the lost souls of the Ghost Children when she looks through the Stone's hole, as a ghostly voice told her to do. In the book she keeps the Stone with her long enough to return it to Miss Spink and Forcible when she no longer needs it.
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How does Coraline find missing souls?

She's frustrated when she can't find anything that looks like a soul—or something a soul might be hiding in—but then she remembers the voice telling her to look through the hole in the stone. Coraline lifts the stone to her eye—through the hole, the world appears gray and colorless.
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Who helps Coraline close the door?

And the other two are her parents. Yes! Coraline hears her real mother's voice in her head, and it gives her enough strength to finish shutting the door.
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What became of the three children Coraline saved?

The three children eat hungrily and thank Coraline for saving them. After the meal, the four of them play in the meadow together, and then sit down to bowls of ice cream as dark falls.
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Why did the other father help Coraline?

The Other Father is more fun and attentive to Coraline's needs than her real father (according to Coraline). It is hinted throughout the film that he is terrified of his creator, the Beldam, who wants him to hurt Coraline, which he does not want to do. The latter proves to be true in his final moments before he dies.
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Is Coraline 2 coming out?

Due to Coraline's massive success in both the Academy and theatrical arena, it naturally made fans assume there would eventually be a sequel at some point. Unfortunately, it looks as though the likelihood of a sequel ever happening has been shut down by Gaiman.
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Is the Beldam still alive?

So, Coraline didn't make it out of the Rat Beast limbo world. But she was able to get away from the Other Mother. Without Coraline, the beldam died.
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How did Coraline's mom know which key?

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Mel Jones is truly a woman of mystery and confusion. After Coraline tells her parents about the other mother and the other father, Mel locks the door and (very badly) hides the key. Coraline finds the key hanging above the doorway in the kitchen and uses her crazy balancing skills to reach it.
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How does the Coraline book end?

In a dream, Coraline saw that the other mother's hand escaped into our world and is still alive. So, she traps it in a well after defeating it once again. The book ends with Coraline visiting neighbors who acknowledge that balance has been restored because of the disappearance of their enemy (the other mother).
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Is the other father a warning in Coraline?

Later on in the film, the Other Father turns into a pumpkin-like human (this was hinted when the beldam said he was as hungry as a pumpkin) with the face in a permanent frown with a monster-like voice and barely capable of speech. This was apparently his punishment for telling Coraline too much.
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Who are the 3 ghost in Coraline?

Sweet ghost girl: "She spied on our lives through the little doll's eyes." Ghost boy: "And saw that we weren't happy." Ghost boy: "gave all that we asked." Sweet ghost girl: "Yet we still wanted more."
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How does Coraline get the third marble?

She chases after the rat, but she can't catch it and it gets away. She falls to the ground, scraping her knee and feeling like a failure. But then she hears a cough. It's the black cat: he killed the rat and got the marble for Coraline!
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Are Miss Spink and Forcible married?

The author, Neil Gaiman, confirmed in his tumblr that Miss Spink and Miss Forcible are a couple.
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How did Coraline's parents get trapped?

Each had in the past let the Other Mother, whom they archaically refer to as the "beldam", sew buttons over their eyes. They tell Coraline how the Beldam eventually grew bored with them, leaving them to die and cast them aside, but they are trapped there because she has kept their souls.
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Why did the other mother want Coraline?

The other mother wants to keep Coraline in her world forever and tries to entice her with delicious food, remarkable toys, and the promise that Coraline can live by her own rules.
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Why does Coraline's mom have a neck brace?

Mr. Bobinsky, an eccentric Russian man with a circus of dancing mice, has blue skin, the result of contamination from the Chernobyl disaster. Coraline's mother wears a neck brace for the duration of the film, the victim of an unseen car accident.
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Why is Coraline's hair blue?

In the movie Coraline, when Coraline is getting ready to go to bed after not finding her parents there's an old photo that shows her with natural brown hair. This probably means she at one point dyed it to her iconic blue hair.
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Why does the beldam have button eyes?

The button eyes were the objects used by the beldam to tie one's soul to the other world.
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Who is the real villain in Coraline?

The Beldam (also known as The Other Mother when disguised as her victims' mothers) is the main antagonist of Neil Gaiman's 2002 dark fantasy young adult novel Coraline, which was adapted into Laika's 1st full-length animated feature film of the same name.
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Is Coraline 2 fan made?

Coraline 2: The Door Reopens is the fan-made sequel by Breslyn It comes out in 2010.
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How old is Coraline Jones?

Coraline is an eleven-year-old girl with a large personality. She is seen as a snarky, rebellious, adventurous, curious, and creative girl for her age. She is also a quick thinker and witty.
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