Le Petit Nicolas (film)
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| Directed by | Laurent Tirard |
| Produced by | Olivier Delbosc Marc Missonnier Genevieve Lemal Alexandre Lippens |
| Screenplay by | Laurent Tirard Grégoire Vigneron Alain Chabat |
| Based on |
Le petit Nicolas by René Goscinny |
| Starring |
Maxime Godart Kad Merad Valérie Lemercier |
| Music by | Klaus Badelt |
| Cinematography | Denis Rouden |
| Edited by | Valérie Deseine |
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Wild Bunch Distribution Central Film EOne Films |
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90 minutes |
| Country | France Belgium |
| Language | French |
| Budget | $22.7 million |
| Box office | $59.4 million |
| Le Petit Nicolas: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack | ||||
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| Soundtrack album by Klaus Badelt | ||||
| Released | September 28, 2009 | |||
| Length | 40:23 | |||
| Label | EmArcy Records | |||
| Producer | Klaus Badelt | |||
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Little Nicholas (French: Le Petit Nicolas) is a 2009 French-Belgian family comedy film directed by Laurent Tirard who co-wrote with Grégoire Vigneron and Alain Chabat. It is based on a series of children's books by René Goscinny. The film features an ensemble cast led by Maxime Godart in the title role of Nicolas. The film was theatrically released in France on 30 September 2009 by Wild Bunch Distribution, Central Film and EOne Films.
The film received mostly positive reviews from critics and earned $100.8 million on a $22.7 million budget. It won the TFO Prize for Best Youth Film at the Cinéfranco in 2010 and also received nominations for the César Award for Best Writing – Adaptation, the European Film Award for People's Choice Award for Best European Film and the Cinema Brazil Grand Prize for Best Foreign-Language Film. A sequel, Nicholas on Holiday, was released on 9 July 2014.
Somewhere in Paris, in the 1960s. A young boy named Nicolas gets into all sorts of mischief with his friends. Some unintentional, some intended. Matters get worse when Nicolas, a single child, thinks his mother is pregnant and a baby brother is forthcoming. And another friend of his has a baby brother and thinks it horrible but, thanks to his friends ideas, he believes this means his parents don't love him anymore and will abandon him. He and his pals embark on several schemes to raise 500 francs to have the baby kidnapped and left in a jungle. But before any drastic consequences are successful, Nicolas learns how nice it is to be a big brother. Then he discovers his mother isn't pregnant, and is upset about that. His parents eventually have a baby, which Nicolas looks forward to, except he gets a sister instead, and tells his parents he should have asked for a puppy.
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