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Amelia (2009)
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Reviews Counted:140
Fresh:29
Rotten:111
Average Rating:4.4/10
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.
Rated: PG [See Full Rating]
Genre: Dramas
Theatrical Release:Oct 23, 2009 Wide
Box Office: $14,133,329
Synopsis: 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... [More]
Starring: Hilary Swank, Richard Gere, Ewan McGregor, Christopher Eccleston
Director: Mira Nair
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Reviews for Amelia
we're treated to little more than generic montages and lots of '30s-style news reels. Lots and lots of news reels.
10/22/09
Amelia leaves you wondering how its abundantly gifted director, Mira Nair, and its Oscar-winning star, Hilary Swank, could have been complicit in such clumsiness.
10/22/09
Top CriticA by-the-book bio-pic.
10/22/09
Top CriticAmelia is a perfectly sound biopic, well directed and acted, about an admirable woman.
10/22/09
Top CriticWith any luck this biopic of Amelia Earhart will also vanish without a trace.
10/22/09
If there's one thing Amelia wants us to know, it's that Amelia Earhart was her own woman. If there's another thing...I don't have a clue what it could be.
10/22/09
[A] gauzy biopic [with] gorgeous scenery, beautiful period costumes, and a love affair worthy of a Lifetime movie.
10/22/09
History can weigh heavily on a filmmaker, and that is what happens with Amelia, a disappointing rendering of the remarkable life of Amelia Earhart.
10/22/09
A director can do only so much with a script...that feels like it's on the runway, waiting, even when it's up in the air.
10/22/09
Top CriticHilary Swank certainly looks the part and...fits the period well, ...but although her Amelia talks about her love of flight, Nair fails to really make us feel it.
10/22/09
Amelia Earhart is known for being an aviation pioneer and, ultimately, a mystery, but the new biopic with Hilary Swank as the groundbreaking pilot has added a surprising new word to the mix: boring.
10/22/09
Swank's resemblance to Earhart is uncanny, but the result is verisimilitude without engagement %u2014 a risk-taker's story told entirely without narrative risk, and a movie that consequently never takes flight.
10/22/09
Top CriticWho was Amelia Earhart, really? It's a good question. Unfortunately, it's one beyond Amelia.
10/22/09
Top CriticAmelia attempts the yeoman's task of recounting a tale about which it has virtually nothing to say.
10/22/09
Swank makes it look easier than it probably should be. She's equally charming and vulnerable, which were evidently a couple of the traits of the real-life Earhart. And that's a good thing, because the film often sputters, sways and wobbles...
10/22/09
Overly glorifies its human subject, cautious to get its hands dirty and dig beneath the surface of Earhart's public life. And yet, even so, Hilary Swank is a joy to watch.
10/22/09
By no means the perfect biopic, but one that covers a lot of ground in telling Amelia Earhart's story. The amount of research that went into (it) is fairly impressive.
10/22/09
Glossy, stodgy and unfailingly conventional, Amelia sets out to inspire an audience but never feels inspired itself.
10/22/09
Though this traditional story about a defiantly nontraditional woman doesn't always soar, it fits Hilary Swank, its producer/star, like a jumpsuit. She and Nair thrill to the life of this American who broke records, hearts, and boundaries.
10/22/09
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