Amelia Earhart

...Baby" intensity. These moments are all too fleeting, since Swank and Nair ("Monsoon Wedding") focus on appearances such as Earhart's huge smile and homey charisma, rather than burrowing into this woman's background and soul. The most...

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...most talked-about journeys in history. AMELIA is directed by Mira Nair (THE NAMESAKE, VANITY FAIR, MONSOON WEDDING) from a screenplay by Academy Award winner Ron Bass (RAIN MAN) and Anna Hamilton Phelan. The film is produced by Ted Waitt,...

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...women and zestful lives. A sturdy supporting cast that includes Christopher Eccleston, as the navigator who disappeared with Earhart on her final flight over the Pacific, and Cherry Jones, who briefly enlivens the film as Eleanor...

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...she wrote her own agenda, fearlessly. While the movie is more about the love affair between woman and plane, Earhart came to love Putnam, nicely played by Gere as the wind beneath her wings. A filmmaker who customarily explores interior...

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...and also Swank's most evocative portrayals, in Boys Don't Cry and Million Dollar Baby. Amelia's narrative adheres to the standard biopic formula. It limits its focus to about a decade, during which Earhart takes her first trans-Atlantic...

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...Wedding and the opulent Vanity Fair create as chaste a film as Amelia? Several factors contribute to the subdued mood of Mira Nair's Amelia Earhart biopic. Languid pacing ensures that the aviatrix's story rarely soars. Hilary Swank's...

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...base called Howland Island. This latter event is foreshadowed throughout the movie, culminating in genuine drama, but the real Earhart remains as elusive as the whereabouts of her final resting place. "There's more to life than being a...

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