AMELIA (2009) ¢ ¢ ¢
D: Mira Nair
Hilary Swank, Richard Gere, Ewan McGregor,
Christopher Eccleston, Joe Anderson, Cherry Jones
A freckle-faced kid from Kansas dreams about flying airplanes and grows up to become the most famous female aviator ever. Amelia Earhart gets the high-end Hollywood biopic treatment in a movie that soars whenever she's in the air, and slows way down when she's not. Swank tears into the role with the same ferocity and focus she brought to "Million Dollar Baby" and "Boys Don't Cry". If you're looking for an actress to play a woman who can take on the boys in a man's world, she's your girl.
