Boys Don't Cry

...feel genuine. Capable of staggering screen presence, Hilary Swank ("Boys Don't Cry," "Million Dollar Baby") manages to channel Earhart's freckles and androgynous charm, yet falters at harnessing the aviatrix's singular persona. Ironically,...

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...her prime limitation: She doesn't have much range. Swank can tear up the screen in raw street drama such as "Boys Don't Cry" and "Million Dollar Baby," for which she earned Academy Awards. She's miserably out of her skin as the stately...

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...it into focus. The sinewy strength and controlled aggression that Swank used to such good effect for her Oscar-winning roles in Boys Don't Cry and Million Dollar Baby is mostly diminished in Amelia by a poster-girl smile. So ever-present is...

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...seem to be the perfect choice to play Earhart. The athletic Swank specializes in boyish-looking women, and has won two Oscars for such roles ("Boys Don't Cry" and "Million Dollar Baby"). Swank has had trouble crossing over into romantic...

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...of the Triumph Inspiration Award But the actress, who won Oscars for her roles in Boys Don't Cry and Million Dollar Baby, is putting on a brave face for the cameras, however out of place she feels. Hilary - who has repeatedly said, 'I...

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...seems a natural for the two-time Best Actress Academy Award winner. But Swank turned down the opportunity a decade ago, right after she won her first Oscar for "Boys Don't Cry. " "That script was a different Amelia. I felt it didn't...

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...emotional intensity of a film like "Out of Africa." Searchlight also had strong relationships with the film's talent, having released Nair's "The Namesake" and Swank's "Boys Don't Cry." But movies are all about execution, not just...

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...suffer the indignity of being written out after 16 episodes. If her subsequent rise due to Boys Don't Cry set her on her way, Swank's personal life has hardly been peachy-creamy. Married in 1997 to Chad Lowe, brother to actor Rob, the pair...

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...exhilarating." For her, so is acting. On the screen, she has played a boxer and a transgendered teen in roles in 2004's Million Dollar Baby and 1999's Boys Don't Cry that netted her best-actress Oscars. In person, Swank, 35, is elegant and...

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