Ronald Bass

...-- Susan Butler's "East to the Dawn" and Mary Lovell's "The Sound of Wings" -- then quickly brought in Oscar-winning screenwriter Ron Bass ("Rain Man") to pen the script. Hilary Swank signed and suggested Phillip Noyce ("Patriot Games")...

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...and closed-off as a passenger stuck in a middle coach seat on a trans-Atlantic flight. Much of the fault lies in the screenplay by Ron Bass and Anna Hamilton Phelan, a script remarkably based on not one, but two Earhart biographies. That...

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...budget and footing the bill for the film’s marketing expenses. </p><p> At the time, judging from the script co-written by Ron Bass and Anna Hamilton Phelan, the studio believed “Amelia” could be a historical drama with the...

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...bubble of celebrity, the challenges of romance when your first love is something other than another person. Yet, written by Ron Bass and Anna Hamilton Phelan and based on two biographies ("East to the Dawn" and "The Sound of Wings"), the...

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...but too proper, too reserved for its swaggering subject. The narrative of Earhart's life-constructed by the screenwriters Ron Bass and Anna Hamilton Phelan, who adapted biographies by Mary S. Lovell and Susan Butler-is framed by her...

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It's hard to imagine anyone, other than satirists, doing anything with the puerile, sometimes risible dialogue. The screenwriters, Ron Bass and Anna Hamilton Phelan, give Earhart a voice-over even as they forget her voice. Directed by Mira...

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...Susan Butler and aEURoeAmelia Earhart: the Mystery SolvedaEUR� by Elgin Long, aEURoeAmelia,aEUR� adapted by Oscar-winning screenwriter Ronald Bass (aEURoeRain ManaEUR�) and Anna Hamilton Phelan (aEURoeGirl, InterruptedaEUR�) takes the...

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...going out on a narrative or stylistic limb and finally settling into an unremarkable by-the-numbers, made-for-TV approach. </p><p>Ronald Bass and Anna Hamilton Phelan's screenplay employs as a framing device Amelia (Swank) and navigator...

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...an unconventional woman. Extraordinary, even. So why does this biography, directed by Mira Nair ("The Namesake") from a script by Ron Bass and Ann Hamilton Phelan, feel so . . . by the book? (Two, actually. It's based on "East to the...

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...women and lives lived outside the strictures of convention. But a director can do only so much with a script (by Ronald Bass and Anna Hamilton Phelan) that feels like it's on the runway, waiting, even when it's up in the air.

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