Ronald Bass

...(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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...easy. She probed, read biographies and watched newsreels. "Mira wanted me to find the soul of Amelia," Phelan says, noting that her final script reflects 50% of Bass' original. "Amelia appeared to be very gray, very detached, but with a...

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...this big-budget clunker for repairs. The biggest blunder turns out to be a misguided screenplay, written by the normally reliable Ron Bass ("Rain Man") and Anna Hamilton Phelan ("Gorillas in the Mist"). Rather than play up the meaty context...

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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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...disappearance while circumnavigating the globe -- has become larger than life. It's on that 1937 flight that Nair and scripter Ron Bass (Rain Man) focus. As Earhart attempts to become the first female pilot to circle the planet, Amelia...

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...in the marital nest. The look of the movie - suave Art Deco lines and 1930s fashions - is blameless, though helpless to counter the Ron Bass screenplay, guaranteed to drain the life out of any drama it touches. There's another epitaph,...

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...and, "a life imprisoned in safety." The movie is imprisoned in safety. The script by Ron Bass and Anna Hamilton Phelan makes gestures in the right direction. It touches on the most modern aspect of Earhart's story: that from the get-go...

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