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Avg. Customer Rating:  (based on 888 reviews)
Sales Rank: 538
Category: DVD
Director: Jean-pierre Jeunet
Publisher: Miramax Home Entertainment
Studio: Miramax Home Entertainment
Manufacturer: Miramax Home Entertainment
Label: Miramax Home Entertainment
Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Subtitled, Widescreen, Ntsc
Languages: French (Original Language), English (Subtitled)
Rating: R (Restricted)
Media: DVD
Running Time: 122 minutes
Number Of Items: 2
Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 3.7 x 0.8
UPC: 786936180893
EAN: 0786936180893
ASIN: B0000640VO
Release Date: July 16, 2002
Theatrical Release Date: November 30, 2000
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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Editorial Reviews:
Amazon.com
Perhaps the most charming movie of all time, Amelie is certainly one of the top 10. The title character (the bashful and impish Audrey Tautou) is a single waitress who decides to help other lonely people fix their lives. Her widowed father yearns to travel but won't, so to inspire the old man she sends his garden gnome on a tour of the world; with whispered gossip, she brings together two cranky regulars at her cafe; she reverses the doorknobs and reprograms the speed dial of a grocer who's mean to his assistant. Gradually she realizes her own life needs fixing, and a chance meeting leads to her most elaborate stratagem of all. This is a deeply wonderful movie, an illuminating mix of magic and pragmatism. Fans of the director's previous films (Delicatessen, The City of Lost Children) will not be disappointed; newcomers will be delighted. --Bret Fetzer
Description
Nominated for five Academy Awards including Best Original Screenplay, this magical comedy earned overwhelming acclaim nationwide! A painfully shy waitress working at a tiny Paris cafe, 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 way! But will she have the courage to do for herself what she has done for others?
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Customer Reviews: Read 883 more reviews...
 A cute film June 4, 2006
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
After seeing Audrey Tatou in the film version of "The Da Vinci Code" a few weeks ago,it re-awakened my interest in the French actress. I thought a good place to start was with "Amelie". Audrey Tatou plays a young woman named Amelie who grows up as an isolated young girl. As an adult, Amelie works in a local cafe as a waitress. On the night that the Princess of Wales was killed in a car accident, Amelie stumbles upon a hidden box of toys from 40 years ago hidden behind the wall of her bathroom. Right then and there, Amelie decides to find the owner of the box and return it to him, hoping that it would bring him some happiness. What happens next that this inspires Amelie to try to do the same thing to other strangers, by various questionable methods.
Amelie's approach to try to spread some happiness to other people may be questionable through lying and breaking and entering into people's homes but her intentions are good. In the long run, Amelie not also affects the lives of the people around her but herself as well. In my opinion "Amelie" was about the celebration of life. It was nice to watch a film that wasn't filled with angst and despair for once.
 Bliss May 31, 2006
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
a movie meant to have you see the world in a new way. lovely, honest, thought-provoking. one of the best movies ever made.
 Amelie - will haunt you in your luscious dreams May 24, 2006
1 out of 20 found this review helpful
Enter the world of Amelie, a mentally unstable French woman who suffers from drug-induced hallucinations and anorexia. Follow her as she enters on a death-defying journey through the seedy underbelly of post-Cold War Paris, where she haunts sex shops by night and wanders the streets stalking an innocent boy named Nino, a drug addict and loner who works in the underground Parisian sex industry. Amelie, a chronic liar and psychopath, breaks into people's apartments and decieves them, playing cruel tricks that will make you want to hate her. Due to an abusive relationship with her father, Amelie embarks on a self-destructive downward spiral of sex, drugs, and alcohol. A riveting film that ranks with "Tron" as one of the most powerful films of our generation. 5 stars!
One of my Top Ten Favorites May 24, 2006
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
This is a visually stunning and utterly charming film about love and loss and loneliness, and missed (and near-missed) opportunities. Audrey Tatou carries this film on her tiny shoulders, with a great supporting cast to help her. She is perfectly cast as Amelie, the shy, lovelorn title character who works as a waitress in a cafe and, through a series of twists of fate, decides to involve herself in changing the lives of those around her. And, in the end, changing her own life.
Fate causes Amelie to discover a cache of long-forgotten toys, hidden in a corner of her apartment, left there by a small boy who is now an old man. This leads to the machinations of everyone's lives, from the nasty green-grocer and his sweet, simple-minded assistant, to the disabled, all-knowing man across the courtyard, to the broken-hearted concierge whose husband left her decades before, to co-workers and even her own father. But, Amelie discovers her own heart beating for the love she craves, and while guiding the lives of others, she almost forgets about her own life.
Everything about this film is beautiful, from the cinematography, to the direction, writing, art direction and, of course, the acting. Montmartre is practically a co-star in this beautiful film. You will not think about photo booths, garden gnomes or skipping stones in quite the same way again.
The closest a film has ever come to representing how the mind works... May 22, 2006
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
I'd give it more stars if possible. It just makes you love life, and it does it in the simplest way. The opening can almost be seen as a little Wes Anderson-ish, only GOOD. It takes on a life of its own, and it can only be viewed in french. As with most subtittle films, you eventually don't even notice, but the beauty of the language just adds subconscienciously to the wonder and charm of this. I cant say enough about it. It has its own world, yet is terribly familiar, and is the CLOSEST any film I have seen has ever come to showing how people think, what they like and why, and the tricks our minds can play. You leave thinking you were sitting in that cafe just watching a true, heartwarming tale that is just too good to be false. The music, cinematography, story, everything just makes you love life and fall in love. All together, there is about 20 seconds of actual sexually explicit material, but the overall good of the film gets it by and is more than forgivable to the faint of heart. Sit back and enjoy.
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