The Namesake

...Gere as the wind beneath her wings. </p><p>A filmmaker who customarily explores interior landscapes, Nair ("Monsoon Wedding," "The Namesake") exhilarates in Earhart's perspective, both scenic and existential. Whether looking out on frolicking...

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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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...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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...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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...of expository shorthand. Look, nobody's asking for a miniseries here, but at times the movie feels more like a History Channel documentary -- respectful to the point of reverential -- than a rip-snorting yarn. And that's despite a scene...

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...a sweeping and handsome film. But it falls short of Nair's best work, The Namesake or Monsoon Wedding, and also Swank's most evocative portrayals, in Boys Don't Cry and Million Dollar Baby. Amelia's narrative adheres to the...

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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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Were she and her navigator, Fred Noonan (Christopher Eccleston), up to the task during that final, tragic round-the-world flight, when they disappeared while trying to locate a tiny island in the South Pacific to land and refuel? This...

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