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Amélie

Original title: Le fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain
  • 20012001
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  • 2h 2m
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Amélie is an innocent and naive girl in Paris with her own sense of justice. She decides to help those around her and, along the way, discovers love.Amélie is an innocent and naive girl in Paris with her own sense of justice. She decides to help those around her and, along the way, discovers love.Amélie is an innocent and naive girl in Paris with her own sense of justice. She decides to help those around her and, along the way, discovers love.

IMDb RATING
8.3/10
744K
YOUR RATING
POPULARITY
934
102
  • Director
    • Jean-Pierre Jeunet
  • Writers
    • Guillaume Laurant(scenario)
    • Jean-Pierre Jeunet(scenario)
  • Stars
    • Audrey Tautou
    • Mathieu Kassovitz
    • Rufus
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  • Director
    • Jean-Pierre Jeunet
  • Writers
    • Guillaume Laurant(scenario)
    • Jean-Pierre Jeunet(scenario)
  • Stars
    • Audrey Tautou
    • Mathieu Kassovitz
    • Rufus
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    • 1.5KUser reviews
    • 151Critic reviews
    • 69Metascore
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  • Top rated movie #100
    • Nominated for 5 Oscars
      • 59 wins & 74 nominations total

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    Top cast

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    Audrey Tautou
    Audrey Tautou
    • Amélie Poulainas Amélie Poulain
    Mathieu Kassovitz
    Mathieu Kassovitz
    • Nino Quincampoixas Nino Quincampoix
    Rufus
    Rufus
    • Raphaël Poulainas Raphaël Poulain
    Lorella Cravotta
    • Amandine Poulainas Amandine Poulain
    Serge Merlin
    • Raymond Dufayelas Raymond Dufayel
    Jamel Debbouze
    Jamel Debbouze
    • Lucienas Lucien
    Clotilde Mollet
    • Ginaas Gina
    Claire Maurier
    • Madame Suzanne - la patronne du caféas Madame Suzanne - la patronne du café
    Isabelle Nanty
    Isabelle Nanty
    • Georgetteas Georgette
    Dominique Pinon
    Dominique Pinon
    • Josephas Joseph
    Artus de Penguern
    • Hipolitoas Hipolito
    Yolande Moreau
    Yolande Moreau
    • Madeleine Wallaceas Madeleine Wallace
    Urbain Cancelier
    Urbain Cancelier
    • Collignonas Collignon
    Maurice Bénichou
    Maurice Bénichou
    • Dominique Bretodeauas Dominique Bretodeau
    Michel Robin
    Michel Robin
    • Mr. Collignonas Mr. Collignon
    Andrée Damant
    Andrée Damant
    • Mrs. Collignonas Mrs. Collignon
    Claude Perron
    Claude Perron
    • Evaas Eva
    Armelle
    • Philomèneas Philomène
    • Director
      • Jean-Pierre Jeunet
    • Writers
      • Guillaume Laurant(scenario) (dialogue)
      • Jean-Pierre Jeunet(scenario)
    • All cast & crew
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    Storyline

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    Amélie is a story about a girl named Amélie whose childhood was suppressed by her Father's mistaken concerns of a heart defect. With these concerns Amélie gets hardly any real-life contact with other people. This leads Amélie to resort to her own fantastical world and dreams of love and beauty. She later on becomes a young woman and moves to the central part of Paris as a waitress. After finding a lost treasure belonging to the former occupant of her apartment, she decides to return it to him. After seeing his reaction and his new found perspective - she decides to devote her life to the people around her. Such as, her father who is obsessed with his garden-gnome, a failed writer, a hypochondriac, a man who stalks his ex girlfriends, the "ghost," a suppressed young soul, the love of her life and a man whose bones are as brittle as glass. But after consuming herself with these escapades - she finds out that she is disregarding her own life and damaging her quest for love. Amélie then discovers she must become more aggressive and take a hold of her life and capture the beauty of love she has always dreamed of. —spragg_s
    • female protagonist
    • voice over narration
    • paris france
    • france
    • montmartre paris
    • 191 more
    • Plot summary
    • Plot synopsis
    • Taglines
      • One person can change your life forever.
    • Genres
      • Comedy
      • Romance
    • Motion Picture Rating (MPAA)
      • Rated R for sexual content
    • Parents guide

    Did you know

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    • Trivia
      Whenever this film was shot on location, Jean-Pierre Jeunet and the crew would clean the area of debris, grime, trash and graffiti, so that the real settings would match the fantastic nature of the film. This was an especially difficult task when it came time to shoot at the huge train station.
    • Goofs
      When Nino visits Amélie in the cafe, "Menu du Jour" disappears and reappears on the glass between shots.
    • Quotes

      Hipolito, The Writer: Without you, today's emotions would be the scurf of yesterday's.

    • Crazy credits
      In the opening titles, Amélie as a child is shown doing various things. These activities illustrate the titles being shown at the same time.
    • Connections
      Featured in The 59th Annual Golden Globe Awards (2002)
    • Soundtracks
      Les Jours Tristes (instrumental)
      Written by Neil Hannon

      Arranged and Performed by Yann Tiersen

    User reviews1.5K

    Review
    Top review
    10/10
    A hilarious, warm movie in a world all its own.
    Not a lot of movies create their own sort of universe. Some that come to mind include "The Wizard of Oz", "American Beauty" and "Vertigo." These movies are so distinct and original that they seem to have created there own spot in the universe, untouchable by anything else. You can add "le Fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain" to that list.

    Here is a film so original, so funny, and so warm that it left me with smiling for hours and the people on the sidewalk thinking I was crazy. Yes it is heart warming, but not in the phony Wal-Mart commercial sense; but in the sense of how good you feel when laughing with a dear, dear friend.

    The film tells the story of French waitress Amélie (Audrey Tautou.) She is in her early twenties, lead a gloomy childhood and is missing something in her life until hearing of the Death of Princess Diana causes her to drop the cap of a bottle which rolls along the floor and dislodges a tile on her bathroom wall. What she finds behind that tile leads her to the decision that she is going to do what she can to make the people around her happier by whatever means possible.

    Amélie goes about this with great success. One particularly wonderful scene shows Amélie helping a blind man across the street and rapidly describing what's happening around them to give him a picture of the world he doesn't get to see. This is only one in a mountain of selfless deeds she does to make people happy.

    As she continues enriching the lives around her, Amélie becomes challenged with the fact that if she only helps others anonymously, she may live her life alone and without the happiness she brings others.

    Amélie's conflict is what rounds out the picture and makes it complete. The movie is deep and takes Amélie's inner struggle seriously, but it's never heavy. Brilliantly hilarious, "Amélie" has a wonderfully funny script and is brought to life in visual splendor by director Jean-Pierre Jeunet ("Alien: Resurrection", of all things) and has at its center Audrey Tatou giving one of the warmest, most sincere and funniest performances you'll see this year.

    I can't tell you how much I love this movie. Just thinking about it gives me goose bumps and I can't wait to see it again. SEE IT IN THE THEATRE IF YOU CAN! This may be the year's best picture and is not to be missed.
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    • alastair_m
    • Dec 19, 2001

    FAQ11

    • What is 'Amélie' about?
    • Is this movie based on a novel?
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    Details

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    • Release date
      • February 8, 2002 (United States)
    • Countries of origin
      • France
      • Germany
    • Official sites
      • Official Facebook
      • Official site
    • Languages
      • French
      • Russian
      • English
    • Also known as
      • Amelie
    • Filming locations
      • Rue des Trois-Frères, Paris 18, Paris, France
    • Production companies
      • Claudie Ossard Productions
      • Union Générale Cinématographique (UGC)
      • Victoires Productions
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    Box office

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    • Budget
      • $10,000,000 (estimated)
    • Gross US & Canada
      • $33,225,499
    • Opening weekend US & Canada
      • $136,470
      • Nov 4, 2001
    • Gross worldwide
      • $174,118,254
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    Technical specs

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    • Runtime
      2 hours 2 minutes
    • Color
      • Color
      • Black and White
    • Sound mix
      • DTS
      • Dolby Digital
    • Aspect ratio
      • 2.39 : 1

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