Vanity Fair

...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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...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 Man's" Ron Bass and "Gorillas in the Mist's" Anna...

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...review by Sean O'Connell - Copyright © 2009 Filmcritic.com How does the director of the jubilant Monsoon Wedding and the opulent Vanity Fair create as chaste a film as Amelia? Several factors contribute to the subdued mood of Mira Nair's...

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...opened in Indianapolis on Friday, will open in Lafayette this coming Friday. It is directed by Mira Nair, who also directed "Monsoon Wedding" and "Vanity Fair." Gere plays opposite Swank as George P. Putnam, a publisher and Earhart's...

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...in Texas. The modest hit gave her enough clout to secure her a director's chair on the last adaptation of William Makepeace Thackeray's Vanity Fair, an England-based novel given an Indian flair on the big screen. Monsoon Wedding...

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Tomatometer: 85% Mira Nair (Monsoon Wedding, Vanity Fair) returns to form with this solid adaptation of Jhumpa Lahiri's novel, about the culture clash between two generations of an Indian immigrant family. Comic actor Kal Penn...

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...and an adviser in the aviation department. The movie, which opens in Indianapolis today and in Lafayette on Oct. 30, is directed by Mira Nair, who also directed "Monsoon Wedding" and "Vanity Fair." Gere plays opposite Swank as George P....

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...screen. Hilary Swank will star as Earhart, Richard Gere will costar as her financier/publicist husband, George P. Putnam, and Mira Nair (Monsoon Wedding, Vanity Fair) is directing from a script by Ron Bass (Stepmom, The Joy Luck Club). PBS...

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