Hilary Swank

Find out what time the movie starts From the time she first sits in the pilot's seat, aviatrix Amelia Earhart (Hilary Swank) feels destined to achieve great things. Beginning in 1928, she sets a number of aviation milestones, including...

In this article: Amelia Earhart, High School of Performing Arts, Jesse Eisenberg, and Woody Harrelson

It's an exciting scene in the movie, with the plane screeching and spinning down the runway, and Earhart, played by Hilary Swank, is given credit for cutting the engines before the final collapse, saving the aircraft from certain fire. One...

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...and hear both Swank and Nair talk about putting together this story and performance. And here's the essence of Swank's explanation of how she became Amelia. So whether you find Amelia Earhart's story inspirational or not (after all we sort...

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...on an emotional level, like a docu-drama or a made-for-TV movie. And Amelia always feels exactly like Hilary Swank wearing false teeth and talking in a funny voice. No wonder early Oscar rumours have disappeared as suddenly as Earhart...

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...visit btmcinema.com. Those who were intrigued by Amelia, the Oct. 30 release about pioneer aviator Amelia Earhart (played by Hilary Swank), can dive a little deeper into the subject by reading High, Wide and Frightened. Republished by the...

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...it was published in 1989, but were only recently made into Hollywood film Amelia. It stars double Oscar-winner Hilary Swank, Ewan McGregor and Richard Gere. Ms Lovell, of Brockenhurst, Hampshire, said: "I'm beside myself waiting to see the...

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...to get off the ground. The film begins with Earhart (Hilary Swank) on her final trip around the world, then flashes back nine years to 1928, shortly after Charles Lindbergh's solo flight across the Atlantic. New York publisher George...

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...made-for-TV approach. Ronald Bass and Anna Hamilton Phelan's screenplay employs as a framing device Amelia (Swank) and navigator Fred Noonan's (Christopher Eccleston) ill-fated 1937 attempt to circumnavigate the globe. The story unfolds in...

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Hilary Swank shares Amelia Earhart's derring-do NEW YORK - On screen, Hilary Swank incarnates the larger-than-life Amelia Earhart, pioneering aviatrix, as a towering figure. Yet in life the two-time Oscar winner, 35, is of medium height,...

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