Ronald Bass

...Noyce ("Patriot Games") to direct. From July-December 2007, Noyce and Bass worked on a half-dozen drafts of the script until the Hollywood writers strike late that year put the project on hold. With "Amelia" suspended, Noyce left to...

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...farthest reaches of the world. Even when Nira does get Amelia up in the air, Bass and PhelanaEUR™s script reduces her adventureraEUR™s spirit in heavy-handed metaphors about the freeing sensation of flying. Swank does Earhart justice aEUR"...

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...(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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...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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...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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...speeches even when she's at her own breakfast table. And director Mira Nair (The Namesake), working from an overexplanatory script by Ron Bass and Anna Hamilton Phelan (based on dual biographies by Susan Butler and Mary S. Lovell), overloads...

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...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. Played by an aptly cast and game...

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...a clothing line. Mira Nair, director of the near-great adaptation of Jhumpa Lahiri's "The Namesake" (2006), and screenwriters Ron Bass ("Snow Falling on Cedars") and Anna Hamilton Phelan ("Girl, Interrupted") pound the theme of...

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...co-stars Richard Gere and Ewan McGregor. It also won't hurt that the film is directed by revered international director Mira Nair, and the script was written by Oscar-winner Ronald Bass ("Rain Man"). With all those factors in play, the...

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