Chocolat is a 2000 romance film based on the novel of the same name by Joanne Harris, and was directed by Lasse Hallström. Adapted by screenwriter Robert Nelson Jacobs, Chocolat tells the story of a young mother, played by Juliette Binoche, who arrives at the fictional, repressed French village of Lansquenet-sous-Tannes with her six-year-old daughter and opens La Chocolaterie Maya, a small chocolaterie. Her chocolate quickly begins to change the lives of the townspeople. The film was shot in the village of Flavigny-sur-Ozerain in Burgundy, France, and on the Rue De L'ancienne Poste in... Beynac-et-Cazenac on the Dordogne River in Dordogne, France. The river scenes were filmed at Fonthill Lake at Fonthill Bishop in Wiltshire, England and interior scenes at Shepperton Studios, Surrey, England. The film was nominated for 5 Academy Awards, 8 BAFTAs, and 4 Golden Globes. It won a Screen Actors Guild Award. Vianne Rocher , an expert Chocolatier, drifts across Europe with her daughter Anouk .
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| Release date: | December 15, 2000 |
| Directed by: | Lasse Hallström |
| Rated: |  |
| Runtime: | 121 Minutes |
| Producer: | David Brown, Kit Golden, Leslie Holleran |
| Editor: | Andrew Mondshein |
| Music by: | Rachel Portman |
| Cinematography: | Roger Pratt, Roger Pratt |
| Screenplay by: | Robert Nelson Jacobs |
| Estimated budget: | $25,000,000 |
| Adapted from: | Chocolat |