Amélie
Perhaps the most charming movie of all time,
Am'8elie
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 caf'8e; 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
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| upc: |
0786936180893 |
| title: |
Amélie |
| theatricalDate: |
30-11-2000 |
| purchase date: |
16-07-2006 |
| publisher: |
Miramax Home Entertainment |
| published: |
16-07-2002 |
| price: |
$19.99 |
| net Rating: |
4.5 |
| MPAA Rating: |
R |
| minutes: |
122 |
| number of media: |
2 |
| last lookup time: |
174719616 |
| genre: |
Comedy
French
Romance
Rufus
Foreign Spotlight
Oscar® Collection |
| fullTitle: |
Amélie |
| features: |
Anamorphic
Closed-captioned
Color
Subtitled
Widescreen
NTSC
2.35:1 |
| director: |
Jean-Pierre Jeunet |
| currentValue: |
$9.50 |
| created: |
174719616 |
| country: |
us |
| aspect: |
DVD |
| asin: |
B0000640VO
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