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.
- Director
- Writers
- Guillaume Laurant(scenario)
- Jean-Pierre Jeunet(scenario)
- Stars
Top credits
- Director
- Writers
- Guillaume Laurant(scenario)
- Jean-Pierre Jeunet(scenario)
- Stars
- See more at IMDbPro
- Nominated for 5 Oscars
- 59 wins & 74 nominations total
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- Director
- Writers
- Guillaume Laurant(scenario) (dialogue)
- Jean-Pierre Jeunet(scenario)
- All cast & crew
Storyline
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
- Taglines
- One person can change your life forever.
- Genres
- Certificate
- 14A
- Parents guide
Did you know
- TriviaWhenever 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.
- GoofsWhen 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 creditsIn the opening titles, Amélie as a child is shown doing various things. These activities illustrate the titles being shown at the same time.
- ConnectionsFeatured in The 59th Annual Golden Globe Awards 2002 (2002)
Top review
This is rated so highly cause it deserves it
A slice of heaven right here on earth, "Amelie" is a joy to behold, and has some of the most gorgeous cinematography I've ever seen in a movie.
Audrey Tatou is perfection as the title character. A combination of Audrey Hepburn, Dolly Levi and Roger Rabbit, she involves herself in the world surrounding her as a means of really enjoying living. There are moments when she finds complete and total joy just walking down the street.
Some of it is hilarious, too..like when her pet goldfish habitually tries to commit suicide, or when she is on the telephone with the man at the porno shop, or when a character is asked "Are you a congenital shmuck"?
But for the most part, its a human comedy, about love, of course.
Just beautiful. 10/10.
Audrey Tatou is perfection as the title character. A combination of Audrey Hepburn, Dolly Levi and Roger Rabbit, she involves herself in the world surrounding her as a means of really enjoying living. There are moments when she finds complete and total joy just walking down the street.
Some of it is hilarious, too..like when her pet goldfish habitually tries to commit suicide, or when she is on the telephone with the man at the porno shop, or when a character is asked "Are you a congenital shmuck"?
But for the most part, its a human comedy, about love, of course.
Just beautiful. 10/10.
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Details
- Release date
- Countries of origin
- Official sites
- Languages
- Also known as
- Le fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain
- Filming locations
- Production companies
- See more company credits at IMDbPro
Box office
- Budget
- $10,000,000 (estimated)
- Gross US & Canada
- $33,225,499
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $136,470
- Nov 4, 2001
- Gross worldwide
- $174,024,485
- Runtime
- 2h 2min
- Color
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 2.39 : 1
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