Hilary Swank

...(RAIN MAN) and Anna Hamilton Phelan. The film is produced by Ted Waitt, Kevin Hyman and Lydia Dean Pilcher with Ron Bass and Hilary Swank serving as executive producers and Don Carmody as co-producer. AMELIA opens Friday, October 23, 2009.

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...increasing fame by pushing her into the limelight. "I think Amelia had an understanding that in order to pursue a passion, she had to work the business side of it," argues Swank. Taking flying lessons for the role, Swank evidently...

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...include help keep the movie aloft. Nair wisely eschews CGI, using real airplanes and handheld cameras to build realism and suspense, and Swank is at her gritted-teeth best in these well-mounted scenes. Nair focuses on three major events in...

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...achieve the seemingly impossible. If Swank gets some sort of knee-jerk Oscar nomination for this role, I'll be surprised and hugely disappointed--coincidentally the exact two feelings I had about this movie. RSS | Report broken links and...

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...is always a cipher, long before she's disappeared. Part of the problem is the awkward Midwestern accent that at times seems to be hampering Swank's dialogue (since few of us now know what the real Earhart sounded like, why not have her...

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...who disappeared over the Pacific in 1937. Why we're intrigued: The film has the seemingly perfect actress for the title role, Hilary Swank, and a good director, Mira Nair ("Monsoon Wedding"). Plus the always-watchable Richard Gere plays...

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...scenes - the film's best - requiring the actress to convey Amelia's fearless determination. She nails those with her "Million Dollar Baby" intensity. These moments are all too fleeting because Swank and Nair ("Monsoon Wedding") focus on...

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...directed by Mira Nair, who also directed "Monsoon Wedding" and "Vanity Fair." Gere plays opposite Swank as George P. Putnam, a publisher and Earhart's husband. Producers contacted Purdue for use of its extensive collection of Earhart...

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...who disappeared over the Pacific Ocean in 1937 while attempting to fly around the world. Nair says Swank was the only choice to play Earhart. Part of raising the bar was for Swank to really learn to fly. Nair insisted that the aviation...

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