In this dark children's animated fantasy, Dakota Fanning plays a young girl who scrambles through a secret door in her new home and discovers an alternate version of her dull routine. On the surface, this parallel reality is eerily similar to her real life – only much better. But her adventure takes a malevolent turn and she runs the risk of being trapped in this false world forever... Director Henry Selick sinisterly evokes the memory of his earlier Nightmare Before Christmas in this sublimely twisted fairy tale.
