Variety
What rankles most about Amelia is the timidity and lack of imagination with which Nair approaches one of America's most exceptional and intriguing celebrity life stories.
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Amelia
A look at the life of legendary aviation pioneer Amelia Earhart (Hilary Swank).
After becoming the first woman to fly across the Atlantic, Amelia was thrust into a new role as America's sweetheart - the legendary "goddess of light," known for her larger-than-life charisma. Yet, even with her global fame solidified, she never gave up filrting with danger. In the summer of 1937, Amelia set off on her most daunting mission yet: a solo flight around the world.
Amelia chronicles these events, as well as the other loves of her life: husband, promoter and publishing magnate George P. Putnam (Richard Gere) and long time friend and lover, pilot Gene Vidal (Ewan McGregor).
2009Rating: PG, contains low level offensive language111 minsUSA
DramaTrue Story & Biography
- Director:
- Mira Nair ('Monsoon Wedding', 'Vantity Fair', 'The Namesake')
- Writer:
- Ronald Bass
- Cast:
- Hilary SwankRichard GereEwan McGregorMia WasikowskaChristopher Eccleston
Amelia / Reviews
Total Film
A solid and respectable but reticent biopic that always holds its subject at a distance. Swank is spot-on casting and the period detail’s impeccable but, unlike our heroine, the film never quite gets off the ground.
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Alas, excesses of any pleasurable kind are absent from this exasperatingly dull production.
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Roger Ebert
A perfectly sound biopic, well directed and acted, about an admirable woman. It confirmed for me Earhart's courage -- not only in flying, but in insisting on living her life outside the conventions of her time for well-behaved females. The next generation of American women grew up in her slipstream.
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Los Angeles Times
So a pioneering feminist in the hands of a feminist filmmaker should have been a perfect match. But like her subject, the filmmaker gets lost in the clouds.
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Hollywood Reporter
Most of all, Earhart wanted to be able to fly free as a bird above the clouds, and director Nair and star Swank make her quest not only understandable but truly impressive.
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Empire Magazine
Swank’s moving performance, the period dressing and beautiful planes all appeal, but dramatically it doesn’t really soar.
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