Tagline: Visionary. Lover. Dreamer. Fighter. Legend. Icon. “Amelia.”
An extraordinary life of adventure, celebrity and continuing mystery comes to light in “Amelia,” a vast, thrilling account of legendary aviation pioneer Amelia Earhart (two time Academy Award winner Hilary Swank).
Hilary Swank plays Amelie Earhart, a noted American aviation pioneer, author and women’s rights advocate who disappeared over the central Pacific Ocean near Howland Island during an attempt to make a circumnavigational flight of the globe in 1937.
After becoming the first woman to fly across the Atlantic, Amelia Earhart (Hilary Swank) was thrust into a new role as America’s sweetheart – the legendary “goddess of light,” known for her bold, larger-than-life charisma. Yet, even with her global fame solidified, her belief in flirting with danger and standing up as her own, outspoken woman never changed.
She was an inspiration to people everywhere, from First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt (Cherry Jones) to the men closest to her heart: her husband, promoter and publishing magnate George P. Putnam (Golden Globe winner Richard Gere), and her long time friend and lover, pilot Gene Vidal (Ewan McGregor). In the summer of 1937, Amelia set off on her most daunting mission yet: a solo flight around the world that she and George both anxiously foresaw as destined, whatever the outcome, to become one of the most talked-about journeys in history.
From award-winning director Mira Nair and starring Academy Award winner Hilary Swank in the title role, comes the true story of the woman who won the hearts of the nation with her daring dreams of flight. Celebrated as the first aviatrix to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean, Amelia Earhart led a bold and uncompromising life as a woman ahead of her time, an adventurer who refused to see limits, and a symbol of American spirit. AMELIA chronicles her skyrocketing rise to fame; the record-shattering flights that forged her image as “Lady Lindy”; a love life complicated by her devotion to flight and freedom; and a legacy of courage, social advocacy, and independence.
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Amelia
Starring by: Hilary Swank, Richard Gere, Ewan McGregor, Christopher Eccleston, Mia Wasikowska
Directed by: Mira Nair
Screenplay by: Ronald Bass
Release Date: October 23, 2009
MPAA Rating: PG for some sensuality, language, thematic elements and smoking.
Studio: 20th Century Fox
Box Office Totals
Domestic: $14,245,415 (74.1%)
Foreign: $4,988,493 (25.9%)
Total: $19,233,908 (Worldwide)