Amelie

Release Date:	Oct 2001
Genres	Comedy / Romance
Duration:	129 min
Cast:	Audrey Tautou(Amélie Poulain), Mathieu Kassovitz(Nino Quincampoix), Rufus(Raphaël Poulain), Lorella Cravotta(Amandine Poulain), Serge Merlin(Raymond Dufayel), Jamel Debbouze(Lucien), Clotilde Mollet(Gina), Claire Maurier(Madame Suzanne - la patronne du...), Isabelle Nanty(Georgette), Dominique Pinon(Joseph), Artus de Penguern(Hipolito), Yolande Moreau(Madeleine Wallace), Urbain Cancelier(Collignon), Maurice Bénichou(Dominique Bretodeau), Michel Robin(Mr. Collignon), Andrée Damant(Mrs. Collignon), Claude Perron(Eva), Armelle(Philomène), Ticky Holgado(L'homme dans la photo), Kevin Fernandes(Bretodeau enfant), Flora Guiet(Amélie enfant), Amaury Babault(Nino enfant), André Dussollier(Narrator / Récitant (voice)), Eugène Berthier(Eugène Koler), Marion Pressburger(Petites mains du générique), Charles-Roger Bour(L'homme à la vespasienne), Luc Palun(L'épicier d'Amandine), Fabienne Chaudat(La femme dans le coma), Dominique Bettenfeld(Le voisin d'Amélie), Jacques Viala(Le client qui humilie son ami), Fabien Béhar(Le client humilié), Jonathan Joss(Le fils du client humilié), Jean-Pierre Becker(Le clochard), Jean Darie(L'aveugle), Thierry Gibault(Le client aux endives), François Bercovici(Son copain), Franck Monier(Dominique Bredoteau jeune), Guillaume Viry(Le S.D.F.), Valérie Zarrouk(Dominique Bredoteau femme), Marie-Laure Descoureaux(La concierge du mort), Sophie Tellier(La Tante Josette), Gérald Weingand(L'instituteur), François Viaur(Le patron du bistrot), Paule Daré(Son employée), Marc Amyot(L'inconnu des photomatons), Myriam Labbé(La cliente du tabac), Jean Rupert(L'opéré des cloisons...), Frankie Pain(La marchande de journaux (as Franckie...), Julianna Kovacs(Une cliente de l'épicerie), Philippe Paimblanc(Le contrôleur du train), Mady Malroux(Les jumelles), Monette Malroux(Les jumelles), Robert Gendreu(Le client du café), Valériane de Villeneuve(La femme qui rit), Isis Peyrade(Samantha), Raymonde Heudeline(La caissière du train fantôme), Christiane Bopp(La femme près du manège), Thierry Arfeuillères(L'homme statue), Jerry Lucas(Le petit garçon du Sacré-Coeur), Patrick Paroux(Le souffleur de rue), François Aubineau(Le facteur de la concierge), Philippe Beautier(Le facteur de Poulain), Karine Asure(La jolie fille du rendez-vous), Régis Iacono(Félix L'Herbier), Franck-Olivier Bonnet(Palace Video (voice)), Alain Floret(Le mari de la concierge (voice)), Jean-Pol Brissart(Jacques Grosjean (voice)), Frédéric Mitterrand(Himself (voice)), Manoush(Nymphomaniac woman), Dean Baykan((uncredited)), Joan Bennett(Ellie Banks), Clément Chebli((uncredited)), Rudy Galindo(Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)), Valérie Labro((uncredited)), Jean-Michel Larqué(Himself (voice) (archive footage)...), Federico Martín Bahamontes(Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)), Thierry Roland(Himself (voice) (archive footage)...), Sister Rosetta Tharpe(Herself (archive footage) (uncredited)), Jacques Thébault(Voice-Over (voice) (uncredited)), Spencer Tracy(Stanley T. Banks (uncredited)...),

In 1974, in Enghien in the northern suburbs of Paris, the girl Amélie Poulain was born and raised alone by her cold hearted father and her stressed mother due to a mistake of her father's evaluation of her heart conditions. Her mother dies in a weird accident and when the shy and daydreamer Amélie Poulain becomes a young woman, she moves to central Paris and works as waitress in the café Deux Moulins in Montmartre. On 30 August 1997, Amélie finds a child treasure hidden behind the wall that belonged to a dweller from the 50's, and she decides to anonymously return it to the owner. He seeks out the man and when she witnesses his happiness, she decides to become the "godmother of the rejected", anonymously helping people that are her acquaintances using her fantasy and little tricks. She convinces her father to travel abroad using his garden gnome; she helps her neighbor that is an outcast and lonely painter and the super that misses her unfaithful husband; she also helps her hypochondriac colleague that works in the tobacco shop and the man that stalks the other waitress acting like cupid; she plays pranks to an employer that mistreats his employee with abusive relationship. When Amélie finds the album of photos of an intriguing collector that collects rejected photos in the Photomaton of the Gare de l'Est, she seeks him out and falls in love with him. On 28 September 1997, Amélie Poulain finds love.