Amelie
Comedy, Drama
Miramax  (2001) 122 mins R

8.6 (141,444 votes) Top 250: #43
She'll Change Your Life.

Nominated for 5 Academy Awards® including Best Original Screenplay, this magical comedy met overwhelming acclaim nationwide! A painfully shy waitress working at a Paris café, Amelie makes a surprising discovery and sees her life drastically changed for the better! From then on, Amelie dedicates herself to helping others find happiness… in the most delightfully unexpected ways! But will she have the courage to do for herself what she has done for others?...

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Cast and Crew
Audrey Tautou  ......  Amélie Poulain
Dominique Pinon  ......  Joseph
Claire Maurier  ......  Suzanne
Yolande Moreau  ...... 
Isabelle Nanty  ......  Georgette
Mathieu Kassovitz  ......  Nino Quincampoix
Director  .....  Jean-Pierre Jeunet
Producer  .....  Claudie Ossard; Helmut Breuer; Jean-Marc Deschamps; Arne Meerkamp van Embden
Writer  .....  Jean-Pierre Jeunet; Guillaume Laurant
Notes
Goofs:
Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): On the flyer advertising the loss of his album, Nino states he lost it near Gare du Nord. Although this station and Gare de l'Est are very close to each other, Nino lost the album rather next to Gare de l'Est. (more)

Trivia:
The traveling gnome was inspired by a rash of similar pranks played in England and France in the 1990s. In 1997, a French court convicted the leader of Front de Libération des Nains de Jardins (Garden Gnome Liberation Front) of stealing over 150 gnomes. The idea was later used in an advertising campaign for an Internet travel agency. (more)

Filming Locations:
Abbesses, Paris 18, Paris, France (more)

Quotes:
[first lines]
Narrator: On September 3rd 1973, at 6:28pm and 32 seconds, a bluebottle fly capable of 14,670 wing beats a minute landed on Rue St Vincent, Montmartre. At the same moment, on a restaurant terrace nearby, the wind magically made two glasses dance unseen on a tablecloth...
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Awards:
Nominated for 5 Oscars. Another 51 wins & 46 nominations (more)