Amelia |  | Actors: Hilary Swank, Richard Donat, Christopher Eccleston, Richard Gere, Thomas Hauff
Studio: 20th Century Fox
Category: DVD
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Sales Rank: 5331
Format: AC-3, Color, Dolby, DVD, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
Languages: English (Subtitled), French (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled), English (Original Language)
Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Region: 1
Discs: 1
Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Running Time: 111 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.3 x 0.6
MPN: 024543641698
UPC: 024543641698
EAN: 0024543641698
ASIN: B0030E5NJ6
Theatrical Release Date: 2009
Release Date: February 2, 2010
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Product Description
Several years after learning to fly, Amelia Earhart, with the help of her husband and business partner, attempts a solo flight around the world.
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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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 Mindnumbingly uninteresting September 3, 2010
Debra L. Chapoton (Michigan)
This was a boring, tedious, dull, uninteresting, dreary movie. The only positive thing I can say is Hilary Swank looked a lot like Amelia. Again, this movie was lackluster, tiresome and mind-numbing.
 another good flick August 10, 2010
C. Campbell (georgia)
not one of Hilary's best efforts but a class A job on her part making a believable Amelia Earhart come back to life. A better than just "another Earhart conspiracy". Worth adding to your library.
 Fine acting, great story, so-so movie July 30, 2010
Jody (Northwest Ohio)
I wanted to love this movie. Hilary Swank, Richard Gere and Ewan Macgregor are some of the finest talents on the scene today, as is Cherry Jones (as a scene stealing Eleanor Roosevelt), and the story is one of the most fascinating of the twentieth century, so how could the movie not be wonderful? Disappointingly, Amelia was at best just OK despite the cast's valiant effort. There was some prodigious research here; the accents, clothes and mannerisms were pitch-perfect and this should have been a movie destined to become a classic.
Why then is it not great?
There's simply no drama in the way Amelia Earhart's story is told. It's as though the filmmakers were so in awe of the subject matter and so anxious to get every historical detail correct they wouldn't permit themselves to find or create a hook that would make the story interesting. Even focusing as it does on the private life of Amelia Earheart, we never agonize or empathize with her moral dilemmas nor rejoice at her successes. It's like a filmed Wikipedia entry--impeccable period costumes, aircraft and interiors and Amelia herself gets shortchanged.
To the argument may be made that dramatic suspense is impossible since we know how the story ends, I reply with one word.
Titanic.
Amelia is a movie for fans of aviation and Amelia Earhart. For audiences looking for a great movie, keep looking.
I'm sorry to see all the low reviews. July 20, 2010
Solipso (Los Angeles, CA United States)
A few days ago I rented and watched the Blu-ray version of this movie. I am sorry to see all the low reviews because I thought it was more-or-less perfect. By "more-or-less" I mean that I don't expect LITERAL perfection from any work of art, especially not from a cinematic biographical sketch.
I didn't expect a screenplay that precisely quoted words of Ms. Earhart, Mr. Putnam, and other characters, and I did not get it. The dialog was designed to help me understand what was going on, to put me in the ballpark. Fine. I understood that methodology, and I was pleased with it. And there were a zillion other things that I understood enough not to accept as literal fact. The movie gave me enough information for a basic understanding.
Yes, I do want more than that, which is why I bought Mary S. Lovell's "The Sound of Wings." But I neither condemn the movie for literal inaccuracies nor for shallow information. It's just a movie.
As such, it succeeded. Swank and Gere didn't look exactly like Earhart and Putnam, but they matched well enough. The Blu-ray graphics and sound were great, the interesting narrative moved forward briskly, and the absorbing conclusion was outstanding.
I told myself, "People who give this movie only one star must be masochistic." But I don't really believe that. I believe the person most likely to appreciate this movie must have two things: 1) A sincere desire to learn about Amelia Earhart. 2) An understanding that a brief movie is not going to give you a good understanding of Amelia, but it can provide you with some basic understandings, enough to whet your apetite for a good textual biography.
Amelia June 12, 2010
Barbara Cummins
Iwas born and rised in Atchison Ks. Her home is a a museum there. great movie.
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