Amelia

...Swank, all dressed up with nowhere to go as Ms. Earhart in Mira Nair's already-vanished "Amelia. " Even Amy Adams made a better Amelia in "Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian. " GREED IS GOOD: At least if you're Michael...

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...Saw VI, The Stepfather and Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant as well as the CGI anime fantasy Astro Boy. Hilary Swank's Amelia, which once had eyes for Oscar nominations, remained lost at sea in its second week. But hey, it...

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...the heralded drama Precious: Based on the Novel 'Push' By Sapphire amassed an impressive $1.8 million the same amount that Hilary Swank's Amelia earned on more than 1,000 screens. (Read TIME's Christmas Carol review) A Christmas Carol cost...

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...laden with fuel. The field was slick with rain. What happened next has always been open to conjecture, and a pivotal scene in the biopic "Amelia," starring Hilary Swank. Earhart gunned the engines, and partway down the runway, the...

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...though helpless to counter the Ron Bass screenplay, guaranteed to drain the life out of any drama it touches. There's another epitaph, "Amelia", on Joni Mitchell's 1976 album Hejira, which finds more poetry in Earheart's legend over six...

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...with the scotsman.com site. To read this article in full you must be registered with the site. Running time: 111 minutes MIRA Nair's Amelia is supposed to be the story of America's favourite aviatrix, a woman who attempted to...

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...projects, most notably "Vanity Fair," the Reese Witherspoon vehicle Nair made for Focus. Indeed, she had been his first choice to make "Amelia" but was too busy on another picture, the Mumbai-based thriller "Shantaram," in development with...

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Amelia (PG, 111 minutes). Unlike its fascinating subject, the legendary aviatrix Amelia Earhart, "Amelia" never quite gets off the ground. Even so, preteens on up with a taste for history and heroes may be transported by the movie's rich...

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