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    Le Petit Nicolas

    " Going Back To School Is Great!"
    Country
    Runtime 1 hr 31 min
    Budget €22 700 000
    Premiere: World $62 794 894 September 30, 2009
    Premiere: USA October 10, 2009
    Production Companies M6 FilmsWild BunchScope Pictures...Fidélité ProductionsIMAV Editions
    Also Known As
    Little Nicholas (United Kingdom)

    Description

    Nicholas has every reason to keep things in life unchanged; however, when he accidentally overhears mum and dad talking about a new baby brother, his world will turn upside down. Will they abandon him to make room for the little stranger?

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    Production

    Producers Olivier Delbosc and Marc Missonnier from Fidelity Films offered Laurent Tirard the project, who immediately accepted it because he had grown up with the characters from the story. About the story, Tirard said, "It... struck me as obvious. I grew up with Le Petit Nicolas. I read [it] when I was a teenager. This work represents me and speaks to me. I immediately knew what the film would look like." Tirard further added that the character of Nicolas was very personal to René Goscinny, saying, "I knew that the key would be to adapt the both in his work and in his life, so I tried to understand the character of René Goscinny. This was someone who was looking for his place in society, and he had to win through laughter... [Goscinny] realized that laughter could be both a defense [in] a society where you do not feel out-of-place and a way to insert. These are things that I read between the lines of his biographies, and [they] spoke to me. The little boy looking for his place in society has become the axis on which to build the story."

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