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Amelia : Italy | about 1 month ago  
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  • Actor Gere arrives with director Nair and actors Swank and McGregor for the premiere of the film "Amelia" in New York
    Actor Gere arrives with director Nair and actors Swank and McGregor ...
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  • Actor Ewan McGregor arrives with wife, Eve Mavrakis, for the premiere of the film "Amelia" in New York
    Actor Ewan McGregor arrives with wife, Eve Mavrakis, for the premiere ...
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  • Gere, Nair and Swank arrive for the premiere of the film "Amelia" in New York
    Gere, Nair and Swank arrive for the premiere of the film "Amelia" in ...
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  • Actor Ewan McGregor arrives for the premiere of the film "Amelia" in New York
    Actor Ewan McGregor arrives for the premiere of the film "Amelia" in ...
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  • Actor Richard Gere arrives with fellow actors Hilary Swank and Ewan McGregor for the premiere of their film "Amelia" in New York
    Actor Richard Gere arrives with fellow actors Hilary Swank and Ewan ...
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  • Actress Hilary Swank is interviewed as she arrives for the premiere of the film "Amelia" in New York
    Actress Hilary Swank is interviewed as she arrives for the premiere of ...
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  • Actress Hilary Swank arrives for the premiere of the film "Amelia" in New York
    Actress Hilary Swank arrives for the premiere of the film "Amelia" in ...
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  • Richard Gere arrives for the premiere of the film "Amelia" in New York
    Richard Gere arrives for the premiere of the film "Amelia" in New ...
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  • Amelia Earhart disappeared over the Pacific in 1937 while attempting a solo flight around the world
    Amelia Earhart disappeared over the Pacific in 1937 while attempting a ...
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Actor Gere arrives with director Nair and actors Swank and McGregor ...
Freckle-faced, prairie-voiced and fiercely independent, Hilary Swank's depiction of aviator Amelia Earhart in Mira Nair's biographical film "Amelia" is of a high order. It ranks with recent portrayals of Ray Charles by Jamie Foxx and Truman...
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  • News Source: Salon | about 1 month ago
    23 PDT Hilary Swank has the face, and the swagger, to play Amelia Earhart...It's a big story, and a rich one, particularly when you factor in the complexities of Earhart's relationship with her publicist husband, George Putnam, and her extramarital...
  • News Source: The Fresno Bee | about 1 month ago
    You know you should pay attention, but it all seems way too familiar. The script by Ron Bass and Anna Hamilton Phelan uses Earhart's final flight as the film framework. That's the safe and bland choice, since Earhart's disappearance at sea has been...
  • News Source: USA Today | about 1 month ago
    It's hampered by a too-reverential portrait of the record-breaking aviator. Hilary Swank is a plucky Amelia Earhart , the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic, and director Mira Nair has fashioned a sweeping and handsome film. But it falls...
  • News Source: Asian Wall Street Journal | about 1 month ago
    In her place, "Amelia" presents a protofeminist with a frozen smile spouting free-as-a-bird slogans from a bird-brained script. The film struggles to stay aloft, and may soon vanish, like its namesake, without a trace. But below and beyond the...
  • News Source: The New York Times | about 1 month ago
    Romance is in the air in “Amelia,” or at least in the score, which works hard to inject some emotional coloring into the proceedings. The music screams (sobs) 1940s big-screen melodramatic excess and beautiful suffering. Alas, excesses of any...
  • News Source: Seattle Times | about 1 month ago
    Movie review "Amelia," with Hilary Swank, Richard Gere, Ewan McGregor, Christopher Eccleston, Joe Anderson. Directed by Mira Nair, from a screenplay by Ron Bass and Anna Hamilton Phelan, based on the books "East to the Dawn" by Susan Butler and "The...
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  • Blog Source: www.jaxobserver.com
    NEW YORK – If you're planning a long-distance rendezvous, don't tell Hilary Swank. She might show up and fly you there herself, as she did recently with her wary boyfriend, film agent John Campisi. “He had a business meeting in Las ...
  • Blog Source: www.celebrity-gossip.net
    Hilary Swank attended the premiere of Amelia - Hilary Swank Premieres “Amelia”
  • Blog Source: teaser-trailer.com
    Amelia the movie A few preview clips of Amelia, the upcoming biopic of Amelia Earhart starring Hilary Swank and Richard Gere, have been released: Amelia – Safety First Amelia Earhart (Hilary Swank) along with George Putnam (Richard ...
  • Blog Source: guestofaguest.com
    Hilary Swank, Ewan McGregor Yesterday evening, the Paris Theater hosted the world premiere of “Amelia.” Director Mira Nair joined stars Hilary Swank, Richard Gere and Ewan McGregor as well as famous faces Mariska Hargitay, Harry Connick ...
  • Blog Source: www.washingtonexaminer.com
    Capsule reviews of films opening this week: "Amelia" — Considering the risks Amelia Earhart took, losing her life in the call of aviation, Hilary Swank and director Mira Nair don't put much on the line in their film biography of the ...
  • Blog Source: popculturenerd.wordpress.com
    I don't know because the film doesn't address that part of her life, and I haven't read the books—Susan Butler's East to the Dawn and Mary S. Lovell's The Sounds of Wings—on which Amelia is based. But fly Earhart does, ...
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