Amelia

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Amelia

PG

2009

1h 51m

Biography

History

Drama

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From the time she first sits in the pilot's seat, aviatrix Amelia Earhart (Hilary Swank) feels destined to achieve great things. Beginning in 1928, she sets a number of aviation milestones, including numerous speed and altitude records, and was the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic. In 1937, Amelia undertakes her greatest challenge of all: to become the first woman to circumnavigate the globe by airplane.

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Critics Consensus

Amelia takes the compelling raw materials of its subject's life and does little with them, conventionally ticking off Earhart's accomplishments without exploring the soul of the woman.

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Rex Reed

Observer

It has beautiful cinematography, a star performance that is shocking in its authenticity, a careful eye for nuance and detail and an irresistible blend of action and romance that should spell automatic success.

Dec 10, 2009

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Angie Errigo

Empire Magazine

Swank's moving performance, the period dressing and beautiful planes all appeal, but dramatically it doesn't really soar.

Rated: 3/5

Nov 13, 2009

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Toby Young

The Times (UK)

Hilary Swank is forced to deliver dialogue that sounds as if it was written in Chinese and then translated into English by a computer.

Rated: 1/5

Nov 13, 2009

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Tim Stevens

The Spool

Earhart, a rebellious obsessive with an active distaste for societal convention, ends up feeling flat in practice.

Feb 4, 2021

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Richard Propes

TheIndependentCritic.com

Sorry, Hilary. There won't be any awards coming your way for this year.

Rated: 2.0/4.0

Sep 1, 2020

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Debbie Baldwin

Ladue News

Seasoned director Mira Nair goes way off the rails in almost every way-from the lack of chemistry in Earhart and Putnam's seeming relationship of convenience to the final heart-wrenching mystery of Amelia's disappearance.

Rated: 5/10

Dec 6, 2018

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Lanfranco C

The story is amazing, but the movie is boring

Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars

03/10/25

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EPC1948 R

Absolute garbage and a total disservice to Amelia Earhart. Even run at double speed it was boring and patronising.

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

10/11/23

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Audience Member

I have to say Hillary Swank was the best actress for this movie. She looked just like her. I think the movie would have been better with other male leads. I enjoyed how they would bring the black and whites to life . Something was king of off. I blame Richard Gere

Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars

01/12/23

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Either Amelia was the most boring woman on earth or Hilary Swank should have been tarred and feather for her performance. Uhh... but then again I'd probably be off my game if I had to make out with Richard Gere. It' an insult that he's even on the film cover with her.

Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars

02/25/23

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It's good movie to watch

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

02/18/23

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Surprisingly poor, given the stellar cast. The biography doesn't lend itself to dramatisation, at least not in this account. It's told rather than lived. Interesting to learn the facts - she was very effective in promoting women as pilots and independent in her relationships with men. She comes over as soft here, whereas I imagine she had a much harder edge. A little more imagination would have made this a more enjoyable tale.

Rated 2 out of 5 stars

02/14/23

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From the time she first sits in the pilot's seat, aviatrix Amelia Earhart (Hilary Swank) feels destined to achieve great things. Beginning in 1928, she sets a number of aviation milestones, including numerous speed and altitude records, and was the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic. In 1937, Amelia undertakes her greatest challenge of all: to become the first woman to circumnavigate the globe by airplane.

Director: Mira Nair
Producer: Ted Waitt, Kevin Hyman, Lydia Dean Pilcher
Screenwriter: Ronald Bass, Anna Hamilton Phelan
Distributor: Fox
Production Co: Fox Searchlight, Avalon Pictures
Rating: PG (Smoking|Language|Some Sensuality|Thematic Elements)
Genre: Biography, History, Drama
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Oct 23, 2009, Wide
Release Date (Streaming): Mar 1, 2013
Box Office (Gross USA): $14.2M
Runtime: 1h 51m

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