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[[File:Amelieposter.jpg|frame| She'll change your life.]]
''Le Fabuleux Destin d'Amélie Poulain'' ("''The Fabulous Destiny of Amélie Poulain''"
The plot follows Amélie, a lonely young Parisian waitress with simple pleasures, as she decides to become a sort of guardian angel to those around her: reuniting a stranger with a box of his childhood treasures, gently prompting her retired father to follow his dreams of world travel, matchmaking café regulars, playing practical jokes on a greengrocer who's being cruel to his assistant, writing love letters to a woman whose husband left her, etc. During her adventures, she meets an odd young man called Nino, whom we quickly realize is her
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** [[Subverted Trope|However,]] the painting also serves to illustrate a need to move on, resulting Dufayel finally going on to paint other pictures.
* [[Modesty Bedsheet]]: It was more like a Modesty Person. Both scenes where Amélie was naked, she had a person over her.
* [[Monochrome Casting]]: Paris in general is ''full'' of Arabs and Africans (about 1 in 5 butcheries there are ''halal'') and the movie is also set in Montmartre, an area of Paris with a large immigrant
* [[Narrator]]: The narrator will tell you about the plot, the characters, and even the character's likes and dislikes. [[Continuity Nod|These are given nods and shout outs almost every time the character in question appears on-screen.]] A good example of this is Bretodeau, whom the narrator tells us likes snitching the chicken oysters while fixing dinner, and {{spoiler|is later shown at his daughter's house fixing dinner for them and her son, giving the boy the oysters.}}
* [[Not Listening to Me, Are You?]]: Amélie tells her dad that she's had "two heart attacks, an abortion, did crack... while I was pregnant" and other than that, she's fine. [[Don't Explain the Joke|These things didn't really happen: she's just checking if he's paying attention. Which he's not.]]
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