RANGO

GENRE:  Family/ Animation/ Adventure
MADE:  2011
CAST:  Johnny Depp, Isla Fisher, Timothy Olyphant, Abigail Breslin
DIRECTOR:  Gore Verbinski
WRITER:  John Logan, Gore Verbinski, James Ward Byrkit

PLOT:  When a domesticated lizard ends up lost in the dessert he goes on the hunt for water.

PARALLEL UNIVERSE:  Coraline, Alice In Wonderland, The Nightmare Before Christmas

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THE NIGHTMARE BEFORE CHRISTMAS

GENRE:  Fantasy/ Family/ Animation
MADE:  1993
CAST:  Danny Elfman, Chris Sarandon, Catherine O'Hara
DIRECTOR:  Henry Selick
WRITER:  Tim Burton, Michael McDowell, Caroline Thompson

PLOT:  Jack Skellington is the king of Halloween from Halloweentown, but when he accidentally stumbles upon Christmas Town he becomes infatuated with Christmas though he doesn't quite understand what it's all about.

PARALLEL UNIVERSE:  Coraline, James And The Giant Peach, Corpse Bride

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RATATOUILLE

GENRE:  Family/ Comedy/ Animation
MADE:  2007
CAST:  Brad Garrett, Lou Romano, Patton Oswalt
DIRECTOR:  Brad Bird, Jan Pinkava
WRITER:  Brad Bird, Jim Capobianco...

PLOT:  A young rat named Remy realizes his dream of becoming a cook with the help of fellow human friends.

PARALLEL UNIVERSE:  Finding Nemo, The Illusionist, Monsters, Inc.

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THE SECRET OF KELLS

GENRE:  Animation/ Family/ Fantasy
MADE:  2009
CAST:  Evan McGuire, Brendan Gleeson, Mick Lally
DIRECTOR:  Tomm Moore, Nora Twomey
WRITER:  Tomm Moore, Fabrice Ziolkowski

PLOT:  Based off the Book of Kells this is the story of Brendan who lives in a monastery in a small village and finds that he must overcome of his fear of the forest to help complete a magical book.

PARALLEL UNIVERSE:  The Secret Garden, Ponyo, Where The Wild Things Are

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COWBOY BEBOP: THE MOVIE

GENRE:  Foreign/ Animation/ Crime/ Action
MADE:  2001
CAST:  Beau Billingslea, Melissa Fahn, Nicholas Guest
DIRECTOR:  Shinichiro Watanabe, Hiroyuki Okiura
WRITER:  Keiko Nobumoto, Hajime Yatate

PLOT:  When a fatal virus is released by an unknown terrorist Cowboy Bebop and his crew of bounty hunters take on the responsibility to catch the terrorist.

PARALLEL UNIVERSE:  Howl's Moving Castle, Aeon Flux, The X-Men, Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within

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A SCANNER DARKLY

GENRE:  Animation/ Crime/ Drama
MADE:  2006
CAST:  Keanu Reeves, Winona Ryder, Robert Downey Jr.
DIRECTOR:  Richard Linklater
WRITER:  Philip K. Dick, Richard Linklater

PLOT:  Set in the future, Bob is an undercover cop who begins to lose himself and his mind to a new drug on the market.

PARALLEL UNIVERSE:  Waking Life, Cowboy Bebop: The Movie, Memento, Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within

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CORALINE

GENRE:  Animation/ Adventure/ Family
MADE:  2009
CAST:  Dakota Fanning, Teri Hatcher, John Hodgman
DIRECTOR:  Henry Selick
WRITER:  Henry Selick, Neil Gaiman

PLOT:  Coraline and her parents have just moved and as Coraline ventures out to look around her new home and town she comes upon a new world that mimics her own.

PARALLEL UNIVERSE:  Nine, Edward Scissorhands, The Nightmare Before Christmas

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FINAL FANTASY: THE SPIRITS WITHIN

GENRE:  Animation/ Action/ Adventure/ Sci-fi/ Fantasy
MADE:  2001
CAST:  Alec Baldwin, Steve Buscemi, Ming-Na
DIRECTOR:  Hironobu Sakaguchi, Motonori Sakakibara
WRITER:  Hironobu Sakaguchi, Al Reinert, Jeff Vintar, Jack Fletcher, Ramin Mebdy

PLOT:  Earth is devastated and deserted by the take over of the alien Phantoms, Doctor Aki Ross with the help of a group of military men, continues to hunt each of the life forms that remain on earth that can aid the humans against the Phantoms and their particles which continue to take over the planet.

PARALLEL UNIVERSE:  Avatar, Star Wars IV A New Hope, Howl's Moving Castle

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CHICKEN RUN

GENRE:  Animation/ Family/ Comedy
MADE:  2000
CAST:  Mel Gibson, Julia Sawalha, Phil Daniels
DIRECTOR:  Peter Lord, Nick Park
WRITER:  Peter Lord, Nick Park...

PLOT:  Chicken on a chicken farm in England plot to escape their fate, being made into chicken pot pie.

PARALLEL UNIVERSE:  Wallace & Gromit In The Curse Of The Were-Rabbit, A Bug's Life, Monsters Inc.

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FANTASTIC MR. FOX

GENRE:  Animation/ Adventure/ Comedy/ Family
MADE:  2009
CAST:  George Clooney, Meryl Streep, Bill Murray, Jason Schwartzman, Willem Dafoe, Owen Wilson
DIRECTOR:  Wes Anderson
WRITER:  Roald Dahl, Wes Anderson, Noah Baumbach

PLOT:  at 7 fox years Mr. Fox is having a mid-life crisis which prompts him to plot and raid the farmer's land, after which he must take responsibility and help the animal community somehow survive when the farmer decides to do something about it.

PARALLEL UNIVERSE:  Chicken Run, Ratatouille, The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou

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KUNG FU PANDA

GENRE:  Animation/ Action/ Adventure
MADE:  2008
CAST:  Jack Black, Ian McShane, Angelina Jolie, Dustin Hoffman, Lucy Liu, David Cross, Seth Rogen, Jackie Chan
DIRECTOR:  Mark Osborne, John Stevenson
WRITER:  Jonathan Aibel, Glenn Berger, Ethan Reiff, Cyrus Voris

PLOT:  Po, a panda who has been raised making noodle soup but an avid martial arts fan finds that he is chosen from the universe to protect the Valley of Peace from the evil Tai Lung though he has not one warrior skill.

PARALLEL UNIVERSE:  Finding Nemo, Toy Story 3, A Bugs Life

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ALICE IN WONDERLAND

GENRE:  Animation/ Adventure/ Family/ Fantasy
MADE:  1951
CAST:  Kathryn Beaumont, Ed Wynn, Richard Haydn
DIRECTOR:  Clyde Geronimi, Wilfred Jackson, Hamilton Luske
WRITER:  Lewis Caroll & others

PLOT:  Little imaginative Alice gets stuck in Wonderland and must find her way home, on the way she meets a variety of very colorful characters.

PARALLEL UNIVERSE:  Willy Wonka & The Chocolate Factory, Alice In Wonderland by Tim Burton, James And The Giant Peach

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JAMES AND THE GIANT PEACH

GENRE:  Animation/ Adventure/ Family
MADE:  1996
CAST:  Paul Terry, Joanna Lumley, Pete Postlethwaite
DIRECTOR:  Henry Selick
WRITER:  Roald Dahl, Karey Kirkpatrick, Jonathan Roberts, Steve Bloom

PLOT:  Little orphan James escapes his evil sinister aunts by riding away in a giant peach and befriends insects and bugs that help him to fly the giant peach to New York City.

PARALLEL UNIVERSE:  Alice In Wonderland, Coraline, The Nightmare Before Christmas

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