Ronald Bass

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 kind of uplift and emotional intensity of a film like "Out of Africa. "...

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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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The airless "Amelia" is missing practically everything. Cliches abound in the script by Ron Bass ("Rain Man") and Anna Hamilton Phelan ("Mask," "Gorillas in the Mist"). Helpful facts fill every conversation - "No one's flown the...

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...director Mira Nair helms this biopic. The screenplay is written by Ronald Bass who penned 2005's "Mozart and the Whale" and Amanda Hamilton Phelan, the woman behind 1999's "Girl Interrupted." WHO SHOULD SEE IT: Viewers that enjoy...

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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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...in the tale of a modern woman coming of age just before the outbreak of World War II. "I had issues with Ron's script," the director says. "For me, one of the great hooks to her story was that she was very worldly, even though she...

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