Amelia

...force of nature": Hilary Swank's portrayal of lost aviator Amelia Earhart arrives Friday. Hilary Swank finds her next thrill in highflying 'Amelia' Close study: Hilary Swank and Richard Gere portray real-life couple Amelia Earhart and...

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...among other interests of Pearson and Hunt. You could go see "Amelia," starring Hilary Swank as Amelia Earhart, the aviator who vanished while flying over the Pacific Ocean in 1937, in movie theaters. But "Flight," which opened Wednesday, has a...

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...flashbulbs, barking reporters and period newspaper headlines. And though star Hilary Swank does eerily resemble the flier, "Amelia" defines Earhart as simply single-minded. Her proto-feminist ideals and unshakable sense of moral freedom...

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...and occasionally even thrilling and poetic. It never, however, truly takes flight. The film focuses on the public-era Earhart and the romantic Earhart. We meet her as she's interviewing for the "job" of being the first woman passenger on a...

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It's an exciting scene in the movie, with the plane screeching and spinning down the runway, and Earhart, played by Hilary Swank, is given credit for cutting the engines before the final collapse, saving the aircraft from certain fire. One...

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...tonsil hockey - and then some - with Jim Carrey. But earlier this fall, he starred as the young All-American Gene Vidal (father of Gore) in "Amelia," director Mira Nair's Amelia Earhart biopic. Q. You played Earhart's lover-on-the-side in...

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...idea of hiring out his family's land. Wigged out: Hilary Swank in 'Amelia' Woodenly acted and grinningly bland, this Amelia Earhart life story turns Hilary Swank and Richard Gere, playing the aviatrix's publisher husband, into...

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...bloodsucker who takes on a teenage apprentice in a traveling freak show. "Amelia" is a film biography of pioneering aviator Amelia Earhart (Hilary Swank). In limited release from IFC Films, Lars von Trier's graphic "Antichrist" had a...

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...Lindbergh's feat of crossing the Atlantic in a solo flight. Hilary Swank plays pioneering aviator Amelia Earhart in "Amelia," a beautiful film hindered by a weak script. But the actress, whose Kansas-born Earhart sports a weird brogue,...

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