Amelia |
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Staring:
Hilary Swank, Richard Donat, Christopher Eccleston, Richard Gere, Thomas Hauff
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Product Description
A look at the life of legendary american pilot amelia earhart who disappeared while flying over the pacific ocean in 1937 in an attempt to make a flight around the world. Studio: Tcfhe Release Date: 02/02/2010 Starring: Hillary Swank Ewan Mcgregor Run time: 111 minutes Rating: Pg Director: Mira Nair
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With her lanky Middle-America looks and her toothy grin, Hilary Swank is a natural fit for the adventurous figure of Amelia Earhart, the world's most famous aviatrix. Amelia ticks through the major achievements of Earhart's career: her 1928 flight across the Atlantic (as a passenger, not a pilot), which made her the first airborne woman to make the trip; more triumphantly, her 1932 solo transatlantic journey; her marriage to publisher George Putnam; and of course the mysterious 1937 around-the-world flight that ended in her vanishing, with engineer Fred Noonan, somewhere near Howland Island in the mid Pacific. With Swank in her pilot togs and director Mira Nair at the helm, the project would seem to have the ingredients for success, but the resulting film is a truly dull, almost featureless affair. The big flights themselves have innate appeal, but otherwise the emphasis is on Amelia's love life, shared between Putnam (Richard Gere) and the dashing Gene Vidal (Ewan McGregor)--who, the film clumsily keeps reminding us, is the father of Gore Vidal, seen here as a precocious tyke. A smidgen of Amelia's proto-feminist attitude is included, including her intriguing take on her marriage agreement, but nothing actually cuts deep or generates interest. After a while Amelia becomes a series of events, told with less excitement than the average documentary on the same subject, albeit with prettier photography. --Robert Horton
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Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Twentieth Century Fox
EAN: 0024543641698
Format: AC-3, Color, Dolby, DVD, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
Label: 20th Century Fox
Manufacturer: 20th Century Fox
Number Of Discs: 1
Publication Date: 2010-02-01
Publisher: 20th Century Fox
Region Code: 1
Release Date: 2010-02-02
Running Time: 111
Studio: 20th Century Fox
Theatrical Release Date: 2009 |
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