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Amelia
Hilary Swank stars in this bio of legendary aviatrix Amelia Earhart. With Richard Gere, Ewan McGregor, Virginia Madsen, Christopher Eccleston and Joe Anderson. Written by Ron Bass and Anna Hamilton Phelan. Directed by Mira Nair. PG.
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Two-time Oscar winner Hilary Swank (MILLION DOLLAR BABY) takes the biopic route in her title role as Amelia Earhart. Mira Nair (MONSOON WEDDING) directs this drama that also features Richard Gere and Ewan McGregor.
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[An indieWIRE review from Reverse Shot.] Mira Nair’s Amelia Earhart biopic “Amelia” will easily be criticized for simply being the kind of film that it is. And you’ll know the type from the very opening, when an awestruck pubescent Amelia Earhart stands in a golden wheat field, brushing her hands against the whipping grains, staring up at the sky with dewdrop eyes while a voiceover states elegiacally, “When I saw that …
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Growing up in India, Mira Nair didn't know much about pioneering American aviator and Atchison, Kan., native Amelia Earhart."For me, she was a person on a postage stamp," the filmmaker said. "That was it."Of course I learned about her when I came to this country to study. But I only really began to understand her in an emotional way when I was hired to make this movie about her. Then I looked at all the newsreel footage, and that's what really...
From thestate.com
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- Bland, disorienting biopic fails to locate Earhart's soaring spirit (lubbockonline.com)
Yesterday, innocently walking cross town, I was suddenly struck by a bolt of sympathy for director Mira Nair. It's totally turned into the Year of the Female Director (yay!) but she hasn't been able to join the party that Kathryn Bigelow (The Hurt Locker), Lone Scherfig (An Education), Jane Campion (Bright Star), Andrea Arnold (Fish Tank) and others are undoubtedly enjoying. Not with the critical drubbing that Amelia has taken at least.I don't...
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