ParaNorman

2012 · 92 min · dir. Chris Butler, Sam Fell

ParaNorman is a 2012 American independent stop-motion animated comedy horror film produced by Laika. Directed by Sam Fell and Chris Butler and written by Butler, the film stars the voices of Kodi Smit-McPhee, Jodelle Ferland, Bernard Hill, Tucker Albrizzi, Anna Kendrick, Casey Affleck, Christopher Mintz-Plasse, Leslie Mann, Jeff Garlin, Elaine Stritch, Tempestt Bledsoe, Alex Borstein, and John Goodman. It is the first stop-motion film to use a 3-D color printer to create character faces. In the film, Norman Babcock (Smit-McPhee), a young boy who can communicate with ghosts, is given the task of ending a 300-year-old witch's curse on his Massachusetts town. Synopsis from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA.