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For detailed information about the amounts and types of (a) sex and nudity, (b) violence and gore, (c) profanity, (d) alcohol, drugs, and smoking, and (e) frightening and intense scenes in this movie, consult the IMDb Parents Guide for this movie. The Parents Guide for Le Fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain can be found here.

No. Amélie /Le Fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain is based on a screenplay by French director Jean-Pierre Jeunet and French screenwriter Guilliame Laurant.

No. The traveling gnome was inspired by a rash of similar pranks played out 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 song played during Samantha's peepshow scene at the porn shop isn't included in the film's soundtrack. If you're looking for it, it's The Child by Alex Gopher.

It's the second half of "La Dispute" by Yann Tiersen.

"Quimper 94" by Yann Tiersen (it is not included on the Amelie soundtrack album).

In the director's commentary during this scene, Jean Pierre Jeunet clarified that Audrey Tatou did in fact learn how to write this simple phrase backwards.

Two of them are: Sam 'Peg Leg' Jackson, the one-legged tap-dancer, and Sister Rosetta Tharpe, the gospel-singing guitar player.

Yes, it happened during the 1997 Critérium international de la route (Critérium International).

Yes. Viewers who have seen Amélie have mentioned several movies either similar in mood or in the cinematography. Two other movies by the same director, Jean-Pierre Jeunet, include (1) Un long dimanche de fiançailles/A Very Long Engagement (2004) in which a woman searches for her fiancé and (2) the surrealistic Delicatessen (1991). In Mon meilleur ami/[My Best Friend (2006), a man hires a taxi driver to be his "best friend" in order to prove to his business partner that he actually has one. Paris, je t'aime/Paris, I love you (2006) is a collection of short films about Paris from some 20 different directors. In Jeux d'enfants/Love Me If You Dare (2003), a man and a woman, best friends, compete with each other to perform outrageous stunts and maybe fall in love. La science des rêves/The Science of Dreams (2006) is a story about a man who deals with falling in love by escaping into a dreamworld. In Chocolat (2000), a woman opens a chocolate shop that shakes up the rigidly moralistic community.