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The Nightmare Before Christmas
Why this pick
Selick’s tactile stop-motion, macabre whimsy, and musical storytelling create the same child’s-eye passage from loneliness into a vividly strange found world.
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MOVIE1996 1h 19m GBR
IF THIS ONE STAYED WITH YOU
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James and the Giant Peach
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Coraline
Why this pick
Another exquisitely handmade Selick fantasy, balancing an isolated child’s curiosity with surreal miniature worlds, eerie humour, and a darkly enchanted visual imagination.
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Kubo and the Two Strings
Why this pick
Its stop-motion craft, mythic journey, expressive oddball companions, and tender treatment of a child facing loss echo the adventurous heart beneath James’s fantastical voyage.
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The Adventures of Mark Twain
Why this pick
A wonderfully peculiar clay-animated odyssey: young travellers encounter dreamlike, sometimes unsettling episodes, carrying the same playful darkness and handmade fantasy texture.
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MirrorMask
Why this pick
A circus girl slips into a lavishly surreal realm filled with bizarre creatures and shifting imagery—ideal for the imaginative, slightly melancholy wonder of James’s escape.
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01 / THE STORY
Adventures this big don't grow on trees.
When the young orphan boy James spills a magic bag of crocodile tongues, he finds himself in possession of a giant peach that flies him away to strange lands.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
The people who bring it to life.
Paul Terry
James Henry Trotter
Simon Callow
Grasshopper (voice)
Susan Sarandon
Miss Spider (voice)
David Thewlis
Earthworm (voice)
Cirocco Dunlap
Girl with Telescope
Michael Girardin
Reporter #1
Tony Haney
Reporter #3
Miriam Margolyes
Aunt Sponge / Glowworm (voice)