The Namesake

...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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...most talked-about journeys in history. AMELIA is directed by Mira Nair (THE NAMESAKE, VANITY FAIR, MONSOON WEDDING) from a screenplay by Academy Award winner Ron Bass (RAIN MAN) and Anna Hamilton Phelan. The film is produced by Ted Waitt,...

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...a good movie, but it will be one I enter with not much in the way of expectations. The film was directed by Mira Nair who also made the excellent The Namesake. The cast includes Hilary Swank, Richard Gere, Ewan McGregor, and Cherry Jones.

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...doesn't so much talk as make stump 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...

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...later, our fascination with Earhart and her fate continues. "Amelia," a new movie directed by Mira Nair ("The Namesake") and starring Hilary Swank, will open in theaters this Friday. It's the latest in a string of screen Earharts, including...

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...biopics. She portrays doomed aviation pioneer Amelia Earhart in "Amelia," directed by Mira Nair ("The Namesake") and penned by Ronald Bass ("Rain Man," Oscar's best picture of 1988) and Anna Hamilton Phelan ("Girl, Interrupted"). Distributor...

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...in the clouds. But Nair, who's made some beautiful character dramas ("The Namesake," "Monsoon Wedding"), can't seem to help Swank find the soul of her character; this Amelia is always a cipher, long before she's disappeared. Part of the...

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...Gene Vidal (Ewan McGregor), the father of writer Gore Vidal. Director Mira Nair, who brought such passion to her Indian-themed films ("The Namesake," "Monsoon Wedding," even "Vanity Fair"), is hamstrung by a bloodless script (by "Rain...

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But all Hilary Swank needed to become aviator Amelia Earhart was the right haircut. ''She's a dead ringer, really,'' says director Mira Nair (The Namesake). ''So much so that we interweave real newsreels of Amelia in the movie. It's...

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